AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SYDNEY SAVAGE CLUB GIFT FROM DOMINION CLUBS SYDNEY, July 27. (Received July 27, at 9.45 p.m.) At a luncheon to-day Colonel A. E. Loach, of Christchurch, on behalf of the Associated New Zealand Savage and Orphans’ Clubs, presented a gavel and block to the newly formed Sydney Savage Club. , Chief Savage H, L. S. Havyatt received the presentation bn behalf of the club. The head of the gavel is made of the tooth of a whale stranded off the shores of the west coast of New .Zealand, and the handle is made from the antler >f a stag shot in Canterbury. The block which goes with it is. made of rimu. The inscription carved on the head is “ Aka Ake Kia Kaha. From New Zealand kindred clubs,. June, 1934. Haercmai.” With the inscription is the design of a kiwi shaking hands ryith a kangaroo. , THE OTTAWA AGREEMENT REQUEST TO BRITAIN CANBERRA, July 27. (Received July 28, at 0.30 a.m.) The Minister of Customs (Mr T. W. White) to-day informed the House of Representatives that Great Britain had been asked if she were willing to waive certain rights under, the Ottawa agreement which would enable the Commonweath to meet the Italian with a view to concluding a trade treaty with Italy. He stated that Italy had been asking-for tariff concessions but the- Commonwealth was unable to acquiesce without infringing .the obligations to- Britain. If meanwhile Italy’sproposed restriction on Australian wool operated in the nature of discrimination against Australian products ,i’t would constitute a contravention of the AngloItalian Treaty of 1883. The Commonwealth Government was watching the position very carefully. QUEENSLAND WOOLGROWERS AGITATING FOR CONFERENCE BRISBANE, July 27. (Received July 28, at 0.30 a.m.) Prominent Queensland woolgrowers are agitating for an all-Australian conference to formulate a woolselling ,artd marketing policy, possibly by the adoption of a system of tariff agreements with big wool buying nations. . Many of the biggest growers are of the opinion that Italy, Germany and France are tacitly trying to force down wool values. Growers, therefore suggest that- reasonable reserves should be placed on wools and the market tested when the sales resume on August 20. _