AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAI'I.K ASSOtUAT'"" AUSTRALIAN RUSH FIRES. SYDNEY. Nov 3d. Besides uni'h grass, hu-li fires <!■■- strove da rnrrnlsi' "f lininc-i'-ails and some wheat ill the Dnlibo and Narrrtl.ri (list rir-ts but eonstant vigilance ami an incessant fight so far have kept the wheat areas largely intact. In tin 1 hay district men refused 30. per day to fight, tln* fires, demanding .V per hour bv day ruul 10s pgr hour Ir.v ni^lil. sydnky corxni. Ki.Kcrmxs. SYDXKY, Xuv. :}O. Ten out of thirteen city w:»r<l> will I.i* cnntcstf.l .it lu-inoi row’s election. In two winds four “civil- icformers. ;ind in one wnrd iwn I.uUiurites, were elected unopposed. Throughout the campaign both the morning and evening newspapers strenuously agitated lor a change Imin Labour's rule at the Town Hall. They all anticipate that to-morrow's voting uill effect this change. On the other hand, the Lord Mayor predicts that I,a hour will win a majoriI v of three or lour.

OVKUSEAS AERIAL SCHEME. Received This Day at HI. 15 a.m.) MELBOURNE. Dee. I.

Iu Hu* House of Representatives, .Mr lluithcs submitted details ol the overseas aerial scheme for linking up India and South Africa with Auslialia. Il the work is undertaken immediately a monthly service with Egypt can he inaugurated next March. lie* capital involved is CSIiS.OIIII. The maintenance for the first two veins will lie Ci,!• .<HIt). The route suggested is I'.g.vpt. South Africa and Australia and return to Egypt via Ceylon. The sum ol L'l ,(I-I7,(KH) will he required to he raised by the United Kingdom, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Malay States, in proportions.

GOVERNOR NOT WANTED. HOBART, Dee. I. The Assembly by II voles to 11 passed a resolution in I'avom ol the abolition of the State Governor. N.S.W. BUDGET CRITIC ISM. 'Received This Dav at, 10.1 -1 a.m.) SYDNEY. Dee. I Ml Lang’s budget has been the subject of considerable adverse criticism in commercial and financial eiieles, with piognostieat ions ol a crisis owing to the increased trade stagnation and un employment. The Chief Railway Commissioner while claiming the New South Wales railways had come tluough trying times iu the past tew years, with verv much belter record than oth' i States of the Commonwealth, says that the Tieasurer in budgeting lor ihe loss el eleven hundred thousand on the lailw;iv workings lot* tin* year that this is only half the extra winking costs which must he borne during the year. It iiiiit. however, proposed to raise lares and freights again this vein. It is understood Mr Lung submitted

proposals to the caucus for increasing the lax on incomes over LHM) and also increasing the tax on companies. , SYDNEY. Dee. I. j A further reduction on copra freights to CM 5s is expected within a few days. WOOL SALES. MELBOURNE. Dee. 1. A conference between Raw in and wool selling brokers tentatively fixed two hundred thousand bales lot auction in .laiiuary and one hundred and fifty thousand in February and March. Tlie quantities are subject to review with market developments.