AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 August 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED. Per Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE, August 10. Mr Allan, leaner of tho Farmers’ Party in the Assembly, expounding its policy, said the Government assumed criminal responsibility when it suddenly changed its policy respecting the wheat pool. In throwing the producers on an unstable open market it was obeying, not the electors, but the iwheat merchants and speculators.

DR MANNIX ARRIVES. SYDNEY, August 10, Dr Mannix has returned and received a big demonstrative welcome, including a much beflagged procession of Catholic societies and returned Irish soldiers. After Dr Mannix left the cathedral, where he was officially welcomed, he was mobbed by an immense crowd, hundreds going on their knees before him. GOVERNOR’S SPEECH. BRISBANE, -August 10. The Governor’s speech at . the opening of Parliament was largely colourless. The proposals include insurance against unemployment, widening of the scope of the Workers’ Compensation Act, extension of railways to open up western and north-western areas, the abolition, of capital punishment. An early local loan of £3,000,000 is f_ reshadowed. LOAN CAMPAIGN. SYDNEY, August 10. The campaign to raise locally the £10,000,000 6 per cent, loan, to fulfil financial promises made to returned soldidrs, was successfully launched. POOL CONDEMNED. ADELAIDE, August 10. The Premier, in the Address-in-Reply debate, said the Government was firmly opposed to tho continuance of the wheat pool, and had decided also on a vigorous policy of retrenchment.