AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MEAT TRADE OUTLOOK. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 20. (Received June 21, 10.30 p.m.). The chairman of the Australian Meat Council, in addressing the stock salesmen, emphasised the fact that a more hopeful outlook was developing for the meat export trade to East and South Africa, as was shown in the reports of the delegates who paid visits there. He added that the only country they had to fear in regard to sheep and lambs in the British trade was Patagonia, but by working with New Zealand they could arrange against gluts and so secure reasonable prices. SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED. SYDNEY, June 21. (Received June 22, 10.30 p.m.). The steamer Fordsdale, of 12,800 tons, the biggest ship ever built in Australia, has been successfully launched for the Commonwealth line. THE MILLGROVE CASE. MELBOURNE, June 21. (Received June 21, 10.45 p.m.) Sentence in the Millgrove case has been withheld pending an appeal by Kelly. » FEDERAL FINANCES. SYDNEY, June 21. The Hon. A. C. Cocks (Colonial Treasurer) is again visiting Melbourne at the request of Mr Bruce (Federal Premier), to endeavour to adjust the differences over the financial proposals between the Commonwealth and the States. MURDER TRIAL CONCLUDES. MELBOURNE, June 21. The trial of Kelly, charged with the murder of Mrs Overall at Millgrove, has concluded. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. NEGLIGENT TRAIN DRIVER. SYDNEY, June 20. A railway inquiry into the recent mountain smash finds that the train got out of control owing to the lack of judgment and improper manipulation of the Westinghouse brake by the driver, who had admitted that he did not carry out the regulations prescribed. What action will be taken following the finding has not yet been determined. “WHITE AUSTRALIA” SYDNEY, June 21. Professor Griffith Taylor of Sydney University, lecturing at the Millions’ Club on ethnological problems, asked why we were so horror-stricken at any suggestion of marriage with Mongolians? If it were necessary to admit cultured Mongolians into Australia in future, why dread it? There were Asiatic people cf precisely the same races as ourselves, and though the result of the union would be a half-caste race, it would be in no way inferior to either of the parent races. A white Australia policy was a very sound one in the early stages of the young Commonwealth, but it would not be a good thing for our grand-children to have made bitter enemies of the yellow races. He asked thinking men to realise that the admission of a small proportion cf Asiatics to Australia might not be a calamity, and pointed out that more than half the people of Europe were of Asiatic origin, and were closely allied to the northern Chinese. Experience proved that, given time enough, different nationalities could mix and produce a satisfactory and progressive nation.
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Southland Times, Issue 18974, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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