AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1920, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

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PRESS CONFERENCE. (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) 'SYDNEY, This Day. Invitations to the Press Conference i were sent to the Sydney Herald, Sun, i Telegraph, News, Melbourne Age, Herald, Bendigo Advertiser, Grafton Examiner, Wtssit Australian, Ralgoorlie Miner, Adelaide Advertiser, Brisbane , Courier, Mail,- and Hobart Mercury. A RESIGNATION. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) " SYDNEY, This Day. Following the Methodist Conference decision, cabled on 25th, Chaplain Wilson has resigned from the Ministry. COAL TROUBLE. SYDNEY, Tli is Day. ■Six large Maitland coal mines were rendered idle .owing to a dispute between shiftmen deputies and shotfirerß. NO CONFIDENCE. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE This Day. * In the House of Representatives, Mr McWilliams (leader of the Country party) gave notice of intention to move that the amount of supply lie reduced by one-half Mr Tudor moved a motion of censure on Government for failure deal with profiteering, injudicious expenditure, control of shipping, wheat and other products The development of a- serious crisis depends whether the Ministry accepts Mr McWilliams amendment. If it decides to fight the issue it will probably lie defeated, as labour will support the Country party. RACER PURCHASED. MELBOURNE, This Day. A. Horden has purchased the racehorse Gambler’s Gold, Gossine-Hatan, for six thousand. A BIG GUN TROPHY. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A twenty-eight centimetre railway gun captured bv the Australians at Har. bonniers lias arrived. Its weight is 189 tons. It will he monted in the city until the War Museum is established.

METHODIST CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. A feature of the Methodist Conference is the exhaustive discussions on relations between Church and workers. The workers position generally is being debated and a pronouncement is being committed to the General Conference on the Christianising of social relations. f This, inter alia, condemns profiteering and the present anarchic unconstitutional methods of seeking redress, and favours an economic system which will ensure the equitable distribution of rewards of industry, giving the worker a share in profits and risks of business, and that will abolish all forms of sweating, profiteering and oppression of one section of the community by another. It declares the church will stand aloof from the toilers’ struggle for more wholesome conditions of life. It’s aim should be Christianising of the industrial relations so that industry will become a religious experience interpreting in economic terms the brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.