AUSTRALIA BENEFITS
ORDERS FROM RUSSIA BREACH-. WITH BRITAIN RIGA, May 15 The Soviet, besides placing in Australia the recently-cancelled English orders, has decided to buy Australian wool direct. It intends to establish special agencies- at Perth and Melbourne £or this purpose. The Soviet has approved plans for bartering with Australia, especially in respect to Western Australian wool. A message from London states that Mr. William Sherwood, in presiding at a meeting of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Federation, stated that Soviet orders valued at £4,000,000 had been suspended, involving the unemployment of thousands of the federation's workers owing to the Government's hasty and ill-advised breach with Russia. < - .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21493, 17 May 1933, Page 11
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