Really excellent rains have fallen throughout Australia, both along the coastal belt and in the interior. The cane sugar industry has completed a highly satisfactory har-j Vest, appearances indicate a production of sugar at the end of {this year, considerably in excess local requirements. The wheat crops ate coming off satisfactorily, "the fruit harvest ig good, and the pastoral industry is rapidly recovering from the double effects of a prolonged drought and the post-war slump in the price of wool. Butter producers are professing anxiety, because there is still a large amount of unsold butter in the hands of the Imperial Government, but so soon as the Commonwealth Government definitely refuses to take the butter troubles upon its shoulders the propagandist cry of Despite the unanimous findings of "ruin" is certain to cease. the last medical congress, the vital; Even in the metal industries statistics, and the military reports there is some improvement.
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