AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1921, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, A ROUGH VOYAGE. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. The Opihi encountered the full force ~f the recent cyclone storm when hound from New Zealand to Melbourne with timber. The vessel was taken to sea to evade the storm, but mountainous seas swept her from stem to stern for two days, when the wind shifted, the sen striking the vessel from threo directions. Eventually she reached Port Ketnbla, but not' till the engine room and stokehold had been flooded. Arrived.— Arnmagh from New Zealand. T ASM ANT AN TRADE. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 11. Mr Massey Greene informed a deputation of Tasmanian shipping circles that under the Commonwealth Constitution, tho Government had no power to exempt any State from the Provisions of any Act. He understood the Union Coy was withdrawing tho vessels from the Tasmanian trip not in consequence of the Navigation Act, hut because of insufficient traffic 'during the winter months. He would issue permission to overseas vessels to trade to Tasmania during the apple season,. if the coastal companies service wfts inadequate.

\ WESTRALTAN EDUCATIONALIST (Received This Day at 10.15 n.m.) PERTH, July 11.

Sir Edward Wiftenoom, a Legislative Councillor, giving evidence before tho Royal Commission on Education, after a visit to Sydney, stated the expensive educational efforts in New South Wales, judging by Parliament and lnrrikinism and disloyalty prevalent, has been a failure. He advocated tho State to restrict activities to practice of elementary education only.

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS