AUSTRALIAN OR GERMAN GOVERNMENT ?

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9091, 9 July 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN OR GERMAN GOVERNMENT ?

THE QUESTION WHICH FACES AUSTRALIA. 97 Telegraph—Pi ess Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, July 8. Mr Joseph Cook, leader of the Federal Opposition, referring to the Liberal Conference’s decision, said that the further and the sooner we get away from party politics the better. There was something greater on hand. Wo have to decide the very important issue whether we would hare an Australian or German system of government—the most supreme of all questions with which wo were confronted, the gravest issue Australians had ever faced. DODGING_BOMBS A BRITISH STEAMER’S EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright AMSTERDAM, July 7. Dutch sailors state that two airmen unsuccessfully bombed’>a British steamer in the North Sea. The vessel, by zig-zagging, avoided the bombs. EXPORTINGJFROZEN MEAT By,Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright MELBOURNE, July 8. Mr Justice Hood’s finding in the meat inquiry case is that the firm of Borthwick and Sons were guilty of a breach of agreement; that the firm had raised unwarrantable difficulties, when none of the other shippers did so; that W. C. Angliss loaded transport A 36 in order to avoid a probable prohibition occasioning loss to himself; and that Angliss’s loading of transport A 37 was a wilful disobedience of the Government’s decision, ITha Victorian State Cabinet decided on June 18th that a Royal Commission, consisting of a Supreme Court judge, should be appointed to investigate the whole question of the exportation of frozen meat since the agreement was entered into early in February with exporters to make available supplies for the Imperial authorities. The Commission was to deal particularly with the manner In which the exporters carried out their undertaking. Consideration was also to be given to the allegations made against the firm of W. Angliss and Co. Proprietary that it acted in defianc’e of an order by the Government in shipping cargoes of meat to England early In June.]