AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22833, 18 March 1936, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

GRAZIERS’ CONFERENCE LEVY ON WOOL FAVOURED SYDNEY, March 17. (Received - March 17, at 11.30 p.m.) The Graziers’ annual conference affirmed the principle of extending the wool selling season and offering smaller daily catalogues. The conference also adopted the recommendation of a joint meeting of the Graziers’ Federal Council and the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council for a compulsory levy for a publicity and research campaign, the levy to be not more than Is per bale, the Commonwealth Government to be asked to arrange for its collection in the form of excise. Mr J. P. Abbott, in the course of his presidential address, commented on factors imperilling the future of wool, which were international restrictions on trade, the growth of substitutes, such as woolstra, ignorance of wool’s qualities and uses, and the growers’ apathy. He pointed out that the volume of production of artificial fibre from wood pulp, quite apart from rayon, had been multiplied by 10 in five short years GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER MELBOURNE. March 17. (Received March 18. at 0.30 u.m.l Giacomo Tarca. an Italian, was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter of Luigi Marches! on the latter’s farm at Coldstream. 26 miles from Melbourne. The Crown alleged that Tarca killed Marches!, burned the body, and buried the charred bones. Tarca. in evidence, said he struck Marches! twice with a stick during a dispute about his wages. Marches! fell to the ground and struck his head on a log. He then became afraid, so burned the body. He was remanded for sentence.