Australian Trade Commissioner to the East, leaves for Shanghai next week, It is as well that he has had an opportunity of. personally gauging the strength of the recent very serious complaints against the quality of some Australian exports. Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, has told the House of Representatives that the Commonwealth may have to pay between £300,000 and £500,000 compensation to South African importers of Australian wheat and flour, which had proved unfit for human consumption "even by Kaffirs." Giving evidence before a Committee of the Legislative Council in Sydney, the representative of English importers of Australian jams and preserved fruits said that a quantity of rub-pisk had been dumped in London, and that the name of Australian produce was as bad as that of Jupanese. Other complaints have-also recently come to hand, but these two cases are sufficiently serious to cause the Government to take
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