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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1921, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. c 1 .OSER SETTLEMKNT. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The pressing question of closer settlement is being approached from a new angle. A deputation representing the Graziers’ Association laid before Mr Dooley a scheme for making it obligatory on land holders whose property exceeds twenty-one thousand sterling, in value, to voluntarily dispose of the surplus, cutting it up into living areas and preparing them for occupation, the Government to advance five hundred sterling for preparation and three hundred upon occupation for the erection of a house for -each settler. ilt was urged that the scheme should he made supplementary to the existing schemes. The deputation claimed they were not antagonistic- to closer settlement. They recognised the absolute necessity for providing land for settlement. That scheme would provide for a quicker, better class of settlement at much less expense than the present systems. Mr Dooley was favourably impressed and promised sympathetic (consideration.

NEAVOASTLE STRIKE. , SYDNEY, Oct. 5. A miners strike has started on the Newcastle fields. Tlie miners at nine collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts have struck. It is skated that in a majority of the cases the men’s reasons for the striko are trifling. The owners say they regard the strike as a move to reduce the present working hours of a fortnight of II days to one of nine and one-third days. DEATH OF PREMIER STOREY. SYDNEY, Oct. 5. The Premier of the State of New South Wale*. Air John Storey, is dead His death, following a long illness took place at Sydney early this afternoon. When the House received the hews, it adjourned for a week. There is widespread grief expressed by all sections of the community at the untimely death of Air Storey. His age was only o2 years. His death is regretted, especially in view lof the fact- that by his recent trip abroad he had widened his outlook and had equipped himself fully for important work. STOREY’S SUCCESSOR. SYDNEY, Oct. 5. Mr Keegan fills the vacancy in the N.S.AY. Assembly caused by Air Storev’s death. The N.S.AV. Parliament has adjourned for a fortnight in consequence of A[r Storey’s death. The leader of the Nationalists, Sir J. Fuller, in paying a touching tribute to the dead Premier, characterised him as an able and trusted leader, who lad earned the respect of all. FEDERAL CRISIS. AIELBOURNE, Oct. 5. The Federal Country Party meeting took a decision that has precipitated a political crisis in the House of Representatives, 'by deciding to insert on a reduction of ‘the Government’s estimates.