COMMONWEALTH NEWS
(By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright) (Australian & N. 35. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, .luly 11. Received July li, 9.20 p.m. Farmers and settlers at their annual conference unanimously favoured immediate universal war service. Employees of many large firms arc accepting the employers’ generous terms of assistance to invest a portion of their wages in the war loan. Importers are applying to the Commodities’ Commission for permission to import and sell as fancy cheese matured while New Zealand cheddar, which owing to the cost of storage and duty they are unable to sell at the ordinary price. BRISBANE, July 11.
The half-year’s gold yield was 316,862 line ounces, valued at £490.308, a decrease of 3 1,733 ounces compared with the similar period of I9Jfi. MEEBOUItNIC, July 11.
Official statistics show a decrease of ■l6l factories and 1271 employees in Victoria as compared with last year. MELBOURNE, July 11.
A deputation from the Australian Association of British Manufacturers protected against the high tax on goods sold here on behalf of a company not registered in Australia. The Minister promised consideration of the matter. The striking clerks employed on the Transcontinental railway have decided to return to work.
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Southland Times, Issue 17783, 12 July 1916, Page 5
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