AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

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UY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. TEN MS ACCEPTED MY SEAMEN. (Received This T)nv at 11.30 a.in.! SYDNEY, May 18. The Commonwealth shipowners offer of 10s per month increase, provided job control and strikes are not resorted to for the settlement of disputes, was unanimously accepted at a meeting of the Seamen’s Union. ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. SYDNEY, Mav 18 The administrators of the British Association Football have -decided to ask New Zealand to receive a combined New South Wales and Queensland team in 1022 in lieu of a New South Wales team in 1021, as requested by Ne,w Zealand. BONUS TO PARENTS. SYDNEY, May IS. The Parliamentary I.ahour Party has approved of a hill granting bonuses to parents. The hill proposed payment of six shillings for each child in excess of two, provided the total income of the parents does not exceed £fi Is. The total annual cost is estimated at sixteen hundred thousand IMMIGRATION. SYDNEY. May IS. ' FT. S. Cullett, Superintendent of immigration, forecasted sixteen to twenty thousand immigrants will arrive in Australia in 1021. Within three years he anticipates one hundred thousand will arrive annually. FLYING THE EMBLEMS. SYDNEY, May 18. The City Council decided by 12 to 8 that the Union Jack and Commonwealth flags be flown daily at the Town Hall. N.S.W. FLOODS. SYDNEY, May 17. The flood danger on the north coast is past, all districts reporting a cessation of rain. Although many families are isolated, only one fatality is so far reported, a man being drowned while attempting to swim a horse across a flooded road in the Grafton district. Rail and telegraphic communication is greatly interrupted, and it will bo some time before it is again normal. The damage ato crops and stock is extensive