AUSTRALIAN.
SYDNEY, Feb. 25. The Premier (Mr ' Bruce) announced that the Government had decided to make a further attempt to dispose of the plantations at Raba-ul taken from the Germans during the war. They wili be offered for sale within the next two months. The Rev. Harold Wheen has been elected president of .the Methodist Conference. BRISBANE, Feb. 25. The over-production of sugar during the season just ended is 100,000 tons. (Received February 26, noon). MELBOURNE, Fein 26. Giving evidence before the Federal Health Commission, Dr. Springthorpe said that from 1918 to 1922 Australia lost by death 112,677 children under the age of five. The Plunket system in New Zealand reduced the corresponding death rate to three per thousand. The Commonwealth infantile death rate was sixty-one per thousand, compared with forty-one in New Zealand. Victoria had the highest infantile death rate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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