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AUSTRALIA'S HOUSING PROBLEM.

Synthetic Lumber May Solve It.

CUTTING. CANE.

BAGASSE IN TONS AT *** CELOTEX FACTORY

5. G. DAHLBERG“ "ZaTY PRESIDENT. OF CELOTEX, CO;

#nd RT. HON. W M. HUGHES PORMER PREMIER OF AUSTRALIA

Synthotic lumber is to solve Lumber prices aro high due to Australia's housing problem, ac hoavy ocean transportation costs. cording to the Rt. Hon. W. M. Poor men are unable to build Hughes, former Premier of the homes. Building is so expensive, Australian Government who has reote are extremely high.' Thố been in the United Statos for high cost of living has had a bad four months to interest capital in effect on immigration.

-tho industrial enterprises in

"Australia produces as much Antipodos.

Bugar-cano as Louisina Thoro While in Chicago, Mr. Hughon is enough brushed fibre now alonod a deal with B.G. Dahlberg, burned as uselesss to supply the president of the Colotox Company country with practically all the

It requires. fits to mankind. It is primarily by which a $2,000,000 plant for building lumber

only 6,000,000 the poor man's lumber. It means the manufacture of lumber from Australia has bagasse, the wasto fibre of sugar- people. It is a white man's homes for the people. It weighs cano, will bo established at country and owing to immigra- only one-fourth as much as pine; Bowen, in Queensland, a tropical tion restrictions, its population is which reduces shipping costs. It Consequently is as good an insulator as cork province in north Australia growing slowly.

are which insures cool homes in sum- whore sugarcane is grown in its building requirements

mor and warm homos in winter immanso quantition.

comparatively small. "We grow no soft timbor in "I regard synthetic lumber as and materially cuta down fuel Australla," said Mr. Hughes, one of the greatest discoveries in cost. It is a sound-doadonar "Wo have to import all our the world's history. It will rank which is vital to health in this age lumbor for building. purposes. In time among the greatest bono- of nerves and noise.

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Interesting World Items, Whyall, of Notts, is the first man to get 1000 runs this sonson.

Scotland's total of 26 was the amaliest aver recorded against a South African team in Britain, Australla, or South Africa. Thus a little bit of history, was made at Partick. The previous lowost score by an opposition ride was the 40 made by Gloucestershiro in 1901, when J. H. Sinclair took Boven wickets for 20 runE

Mian Audrey Griffin, the boldor of tho Canadian Women's Swimming Championship. has defeated Arne Borg, the Swedish Swimn ing Champion, and has established A new 'Canadian women's swimming record for 501 yards by covering the distance in 22 2-5ths seconds.

Mr James Galt, one of the directors of the club, has been. appointed honorary managing director of Third Lanark, and Mr A. Berry ban been appointed. Fecretary to the company. The former is the old Rangers' half- back and the latter has been in' the game almost all his days- unofficially up till now.

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Hamilton Academicals F.C. report a profit of £258 on an income of £8809.**

H. R. Nicoll, the Forfarebiral ericketer, has loft for the Far East.

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A. D. Nourse has played for South Africa in 40 consecutive

cricket Test games.

The Oxford University cricket captain has awarded blues to H.W. Franklin (Christ's Hospital and Christ's .Church), and J. L. Guise (Winchostor, and Вгазопове.)"

The Cambridge cricket captain has awarded 'blues to E. W. Daw- Bon (Eton and Magdalen) and A. H. White (Geelong and Jogus,)

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F. J. C. Moffat, D.S.O., the Watsonian cricketor, has been gazotted captain in the Gordon Highlanders Reserve of Officers.

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Newman had a break of 852

at against Inman Belfast ro cently,

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E. G. Sutherland, the South African, is an export javelin thrower. He is a police officer at Durban, Natal, and seemed vary much gratified with the watch bo received for winning the pole vault at Crowe,

The standard of Hughy football in Now Zealand at the prosont moment is, writen a correspon- dont from Auckland,, probably higher than it has ever boen in the bistory of the game.

Cholson have dropped nearly £10,000, and will have to play in the Second Division of the En glish League next season.

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The Heart of Midlothian have now 20 signed players on their list, and still they come.

The Improvement of the Norhamptonshire County sido. this rosson-in-duo-not-a-little-to- the olfactive bitting and bowling. of the votoran William Wolle For a man who has been as- shelated with county cricket fir over twenty years Walls is doing. remarkably well. Before the war he was regarded as an ex« tremely useful tast bowler, but of recent years ho has devoloped log trouble and much of ble spend bas bad to be sacrificed,

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the human side. He is kindly, sym on the convention President Coolidge,

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pathetto. He is not a great inlkur nvitation of Mr. W. R. Shirley of Raleigh Hotel.

"The convention," said Pre; but he makes evory, word count Muskogee, president of the Na- tional Fraternal Congress, has aident Shirley in recently an- and he is one of the best listeners been attending the annual con- nouncing it will be notable in I ever met No one who comes vention of the organization in that it will be the first national in personal contact with him cam intellectual Washington from August 25th to gathering of fraternal leaders fall to recognize bis fine, manly 28th.

ever to be honored by an address character · and The men and women the in person from the President of strength." chief oxecutive of the nation the United States. I had the

President Shirley in his annua? the leaders of the pleasure of meeting President

advocated busixés great fraternal societies of the Coolidge and his wife recently at address United States with a member a dinner at the Washington bome methods in the government of ship of 10,000,000 and represent- of Secretary of Labour, Mr. James fraternals and the necessity for a reserve basis in ing fraternal insuraboo of J. Davis' and I was greatly im-zound legal $10,000,000,000. The three-day pressed with the president's fraternal insurance.

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