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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1922, Page 3

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N.S.W. LANDS; (Received This Day a.t 8.30 a.m,). SYDNEY, April 10. The Surveyor-General reports after a careful review it is apparent that Crown lands will afford only limited ooportunity of dealing with the settlement of immigrants on the land in any large numbers.

STEEiL WORKS. SYDNEY, April 10 Following a conference at Melbourne in March between representatives of steel workers arid Broken Hill Proprietary steelworks at Newcastle, it was agreed that application should be made bv the company for a variation of the award governing steel workers, to enable the industry to carry on. The company now states no application could be successful under the existing law to relieve the Company of the present high wage s cost and the works will close as soon as the existing orders have been fulfilled. The Union askej for a round-table conference.

ANOTHER PLAGUE CASE. Received This Dav at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 10 Another case of plague is reported at Alexandria. The authorities are using a new plague serum, the discovery of a Sydney doctor, which lias proved highly successful. Out of thirteen cases treated only one death has occurred.

MR DOOLEY RESIGNING.' SYDNEY, April 10. Mr Dooley announced thnt he will resign on Wednesday. The Governor informally called on Mr Dooley at the hospital. No arrangements have been made for the resignation of Government.

, LABOUR’S DANGER, j ; MELBOURNE, April 10. Unless the executive of the Labour Party takes counter action, Mr C’atts I will sit in the House of Representatives > as an Independent, thus strengthening the stability of the Government. Federal Labour members are alarmed at his expulsion, in view of the approaching Federal elections, realising that the I policy of the wild men who dominate Labour from within, must destroy the ■ original basis of the party. A LABOUR SPLIT. ■j SYDNEY, Apifi 10. j Alter the expulsion of Mr Catts, a

meeting of mem hors of the Labour Party, resenting.the autocratic rule of tie party executive, adopted a basis for the reorganisation of the party, and formed a new organisation known as tlte .Majority Labour Party, as the present party has been misrepresented by a minority section, which improperly obtained control of MacDoniud House headquarters. FEDERAL PROPOSAL. MELBOURNE, April 10. Speaking at Gastlemaine, Mr Hughes advocated the abolition of the Federal Arbitration Court, and substitution of industrial tribunals on the lines of the Victorian wages boards, consisting of an equal number of employers and employees with an impartial chairman. tariff negotiations. SYDNEY, April 10The Herald commenting on the N e w Zealand reciprocity agreement, says it is to be regretted that during the negotiations some announcement was not made as to the lines on which the negotiations were proceeding. The consumer is interested in this mattei as well as the producer and manufacturer. <A knowledge would have given the consumer an opportunity of checking the assertions of the manufacturer, especially when lie claims that the high protection he now enjoys is necessary, yet there remains the satisfaction that any agreement which will give, free trade between the countries will be an advantage to both.

Cyclonic Storm.

GIRL CRUSHED TO DEATH. MELBOURNE, March 19

A gale of exceptional fury, accompanied by -i phenomenal dust-storm, burst upon the metropolis at about half-past 9 on Saturday night, reaching a velocity of about 50 miles an horn.

Jean Ballantyne, a nine-year-old girl, at Malvern,wu s sleeping in an upstairs room of a two-storeyed building, when, without 'warning, a brick chimney toppled over and crashed through the tile roof. The mass of bricks and mortar fell on to the sleeping girl, killing tier almost instantaneously. In many suburbs, roofs were carried bodily away into the darkness, and fences and hoaiding- laid low. Some localities were thrown into darkness through the snapping of electric light wires, ami telephone services were interrupted. Along the uatei limit small craft were hurled on to the I caches, and reports of damage were loeeived from all parts, The ketch Defender was coming up the bay on her arrival from Tasmania, v. lion about three miles off Point Gollibr.nd she struck the full force of tho cyclone. Her masts were stripped, Per foremast carried away, and jibboom split Tile liner Nestor, which recently arrived from Glasgow, en route to Syd- , „ev, broke from her berthing at 1 ort I Melbourne and drifted into shallow I water. To prompt assistance given I hi- a tug-boat saved her from serious | damage, and she was again safely \ berthed.