VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1921, Page 1

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

, AUSTRALIAN.

OV TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. EX-GERMAN NEW GUINEA. SYDNEY, April 12. Colonel Flood, the Chief Medical Officer in ex-German New Guinea, is visiting Sydney. 14e says that, pending some declaration of tlie Federal Government’s intended policy, under file mandate, little serious development work is now possible there. The leading German companies who were conducting most of the new German trade, have been expropriated. Thoir employees! have been sent back to Germany.

There are still, be states, 21)0 Germans interned there. These Germans will probably be sent back to Germany also when the Expropriation Commission issues a report. Real development should then start. Dr Flood predicts the territory will become a source ot great wealth to Australia. THE WAR ON WAGES. MELBOURNE, April 12. In reference to the Mt. Lvell miners, they have made tlie suggestion that the wages question should be referred to the Arbitration Court. The management points out that the court had laid 'it down as fundamental principle that, it would he better to abandon an enterprise which cannot be continued without reducing the basic wage. Consequently the management asked the unions to meet i with the. object of assisting to formulate a satisfactory agreement. COTTON GROWING. SYDNEY, April 12 Alter an cxljaustixe examination of suitable lauds in New Smith Males and Queensland, n delegation ol the British Cotton Growers’ \ssociation reports that there is ample scope for the establishment of cotton growing here. The delegation is to report the ■csult of its mission U> strong British financial interests behind the proposed scheme.

SENTENCED TO DEATH. SYDNEY, April 12. The man Speeeliley has been lound guilty of the murder of Cons’aide W olgast in Centennial Dark. peeehley was sentenced to death. IXFI.CEXZA ()l• TBR E\ K. MELBOURNE, April 12. I ’liie Federal Director of Health reports that the steamer Gbmluss has been quarantined at Thursday Island with eight eases of influenza aboard. FREIGHT REDUCTIONS. SYDNEY, April 12. The overseas shipping representatives Association have decided ‘o reduce the rates for overseas eftrgo from Australia to the parity of the New Zealand rates, which are stated to be the lowest possible level. BARN ADO HOME BOYS. SYDNEY, April 12. A branch of Doctor Rurmido’s Home is to be established in New South Wales. A building has bemi purchased to accommodate 100 buys. Arrangements have been made for NO hoys Iff be sent out from England immediate-

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. ADELAIDE, A-wil 12. The latest figures go to indicate that the Premier will have JO supporters against the oppositions (l.abo ir’s) Ifi. HOOKWORM in AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE. April 12. The Federal Health Director states that the first case (if hookworm in Western Australia has been discovered in ibe North of Broom. MARRIAGE STATISTICS. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. New South Wales statistics for 1920 show an increase in marriages of twenty-live per cent. A 44-lIOUR. WEEK. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Justice Booby sitting as a specie tribunal, decided that a forty-four hour will lie observed in torty-six trades, specified cither ol ui days ol eight hours, or in ease of agreement, live days of eight hours forty-eight minutes each. OFF TO RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 11. JO a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A statement is officially made at Trades Hall that a number of unemployed skilled artisans, are going to Russia, where engineers, fitters and others are in great demand. The amalgamated engineers have six hundred idle on their hooks.