CABLE NEWS
A telegram received at Hull states that the Soviets have_ released the trawlers Lord Astor and Janies Johnson. The former will tow the latter home. The trawler St. Hubert is still detained. Mr W. M. Hugh os appeared in a new role on Sunday night, when he read the lessons in the Church of England at Lavender Bay, Sydney. He spoke with the rapidity of a politician rather than in the measure.l accents of a rector. The Methodist Conference sitting at Adelaide passed a resolution against the increasing tendency to desecrate the Sabbath and urges its preservation for Divine worship. Mr. Bruce, Federal Premier, explains that dependants of soldiers will not suffer through the dispute with the soldiers’ organisation, and adds that the Government at no time departed from the policy of preference to soldiers provided other things were equal. The soldiers may criticise, but they have no right to dictate to the Government. An Adelaide cable states that the official preliminary report of the 1922-23 wheat harvest shows that 109.731 more acres were cropped than in the previous year. The yield was 28,785,000 bushels—an average of 11.73 bushels per acre.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 29 May 1923, Page 9
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