AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20319, 30 January 1928, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY, PIONEERING SPIRIT NEEDED. (Pres* Association —By. Telegraph—Copyright ) ADELAIDE. January 28. The Premier (Mr Butler), speaking at the Australian Natives’ Association meeting, said the Australian Governments had more or leas engaged in activities which it would have been as well to have left to private enterprise. Politicals had been encouraged to court popularity, and support by a lavish expenditure of public money. This had become one of the most dangerous elements in political lifei If it continued it would have a demoralising effect on the individual and would cause chaos. There was still new country to be developed, and they required mep with the pioneering spirit for the work.

LABOUR CONFERENCE AT GENEVA. AUSTRALIA’S REPRESENTATIVE. SYDNEY., January 28. Mr J. Wallace Sandford has been appointed by' the Federal Government to represent the employers at the International Labour Conference at Geneva. PRICE OF BUTTER AND CHEESE.: CONFERENCE RECOMMENDATIONS. MELBOURNE, January 27. Recommendations for establishing an all-round Australian price for butter and cheese, with equalisation in each State on a State basis, were approved by a conference of State representatives, at which a draft of the proposals for a State Butter and Cheese Marketing Act, drawn up by the Australian Stabilisation Committee, was read. The Bill provides the necessary machinery to fix the price of butter and cheese in each State, and to effect an equitable method of equalisation on a State basis between the local and export values.

DUTY ON PORK AND BACON. PRODUCERS WANT INCREASE. SYDNEY, January 28. (Received Jan. 29, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph says that an impending move on the part of the producers is an application for an increase in the duty on bacon and pork. This is being directed chiefly against New Zealand, whence the greater part of Australia’s importations of these products are derived. The competition of the Dominion in these markets is regarded aa altogether unfair to local pig raisers, since the New Zealand Government, in order to foster the trade, has granted a bonus on exported pork. Trade returns show that last year Australia exported 1,814,0001 b of bacon and* ham and imported 375,0001 b, of which 352,0001 b came from New Zealand. The exports of "pork totalled 481,0001 b, while the imports amounted to 733,0001 b, of which New Zealand supplied all but 2001 b. . THUNDERSTORM AT MORUYA.' A BOY STRUCK DEAD. SYDNEY, January 29. •’ ; (Received Jan. 29, at 5.5 p.m.) •- 1 During a thunderstorm at Moruya * boy was struck dead on the showground, and many people in the vicinity were stunned.