THE COMMONWEALTH.
AUSTRALIAN HEWS. T«legrtuh—Press Associ&tioc—-Copyright Austrslisn and N.Z. Cable Association. - DAY OF HUMILIATION. (Received August 22, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 22. A Gazette extraordinary has been published proclaiming Sunday next a day of humiliation and prayer in consideration of the serious calamities from ■which tue State is suffering bv reason of the protracted drought. BROKEN HILL. FIRE INQUIRY. The coroner, at the Broken Hill in- / c(uiry into the South mine lire on July 30, found that the outbreak was duo to incendiarism. PRODUCERS’ PLATFORM. MELBOURNE, August 22, The Council of the Farmers’ Federal Organisation adopted a platform which includes the extension of the Commonwealth shipping lino by the inclusion of large, fast steamers, and the encouragement of all forms of co-operative enterprise. It was resolved that each State should run a producers’ candidate for both the House of Representatives and the the Senate at the next eloc-’ tion.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12726, 22 August 1919, Page 5
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