THE CENTENARY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 10

THE CENTENARY

EVENTS IN MELBOURNE

FEAR OF TRAMWAY STRIKE

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Cuited I'ress Association—Uy Electric TeleerapU—Copyright. (Received October 10, 2 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The principal Centenary topic today is tho prospect of a tramway strike. Definitely no trams will run on Tuesday morning when a stopwork meeting will be held. Only the event of an eleventh-hour development will enable a service to bo provided at all. The meeting is likely to be lengthy. The militants, having achieved an initial success, will probably attempt to have a strike declared. The moderates do not favour a strike, realising the tramways have a duty to the public, especially in view of the Centenary. The authorities are awaiting developments. There will be no emergency services on Tuesday unless a strike is declared. Only 300 buses are available to carry the traffic of 1200 trams.. Great crowds are attending the AllAustralian Exhibition organised as an industrial contribution to the celebrations to mark a century of development. Opening the exhibition, the Premier (Sir Stanley Argylo) said that Australia had been built upon industrial self-reliance, the manufacturers having helped Australia to offer a solid resistance to tho world depression, so that Australia was 'described as the overseas country showing- tho greatest economic recovery. Forty-two entries in the Centenary open, amateur, and professional golf championships include the New Zealand professionals George Watt, N. H. Fuller, John Lambie, and N. A. J. Shaw. One New Zealand amateur's entry was not accepted because he was on a two handicap. The meeting opens on NovemI bor 15. Entries close on October 22.

Mrs. AVinch (New Zealand) is among four players seeded in the draw for the women's amateur squash racquets championship, which is being played on October 22.