AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17470, 2 June 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES. (By Cable—Brese Association—Oopyrigit.) (Australian and N\Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, May 1. The Intor-State Universities Conference resolved in favour of a scheme for the uniformity of decrees in the various States. It was also decided to ask the Cambridge University to give greater recognition to Australian degrees where a student desires to do additional work in England, and to ask the London University to recognise t.he Australian matriculation examinations. It was agreed there should be common university examinations in all States in order to encourage competitive games.

SCHOOL CONDEMNED. SYDNEY, June 1. The Waratah. Council has condemned tho Mayfield Public School as unfit for human occupation, and has served 30 days' notice on the Minister of Education to quit. WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY. i • BRISBANE, June 1. Mr W. M. Hughes, speaking at Flat Top, stated that he was an inveterate believer in a White Australia. The farther north he penetrated, the more he was convinced that the country could prince a virile white population. jEfe haa no time for people who wanted a coloured race in the north. If such a cry gained footing, he for one would never couch a lance for. Australia.

SUSPECTED CASE OP PLAGUE. BRISBANE, June 1. The steamer Southgate, from Calcutta, landed a fireman suspscted to be suffering from plague. After being fumigated, the vessel will sail for Sydney. A NOTABLE APPOINTMENT. (Received June Ist, 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 1. For the first time in the history of Australia a woman, Miss Muriel Henderson, has been appointed private secretary at Government House.