Australian.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1922, Page 1

Australian.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.it. CAlU.lv ASSOCIATION. WH BAT OVERPAYMENTS. SYDNEY, May 10. Mr Ball is instituting enquiries with tlie object of recovering wheat over-pay-ments in tlie pools of 1915-16, 16-17, 2021. Tt is proposed to deduct amounts from the compensation due to farmers ' as a result of tlie Government guarantee. SALE OF BIBLES. SYDNEY, Mn,V 10. The annual meeting of the Bible Society reported they had copies of t’m Bible in seven hundred different lai, guages at headquarters, and more were being translated. Last year niiie million copies were distributed, and 300 million since tlie inception. The local body has disposed of seventy-one thousand copies last year, an increase of thirty thousand over 1929. MINERS REQUEST. SYDNEY, May 10. The Prime Minister's department replying to a request by Port Kcmbln Progress Association that tlie exportation of crude ores anil partially treated minerals produced he prohibited, states such an embargo will not appreeiately affect tlie position us tile depression jn the metal industry was world wide. It promised no action would ho taken until the metal market improved. NAVAL DISPUTE. MELBOURNE, May 10. It is reported the Navy Department’s dispute with ttie Seamen's Union threft. toned to delay the departure of tii oil tank steamer Kurnimba for Borneo to obtain oil supplies for the rest of the fleet. The department coped with tlie difficulty hv .submitting naval ratings for unionists. A TONGAN PROTEST. ' (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY. May 11. A circular printed in Tongan, protesting against British interference ill international affairs <>f the Tongan Government, lias reached Sydney. It warns Tongnns that their country lias been bartered by unscrupulous people of rank who a ill forcibly take it and advises them to love their country, and not to squander their money received for produce on decorations for women, hut in arms and ammunitions to save tlie country from a big forceful grasping Empire. It demands that Britain .should show proper respect for Tonga without violating the treaty. The circular concludes: —God bless Queen Charlotte, with has no protector. This was written by a, committee of tlie Society who shoot people for the love of their country. Tiic translator points out that the circular is written in such bad Toitgan and so worded that it can easily he detected as the work of a European foreigner.

INDIAN AFFAIRS. SYDNEY. May 10,

Mrs A. Bcsant, the writer and tbeosopliist, who is liero on a vist from India, declares herself to closely identified with a movement ■ for tlie freedom of India, .though she declares herself as opposed to the Indians’ own Non-Co-operation movement. She says the non-co-operators would only play into tho bands of the reactionary officialdom of India. They would lead to a. revolution in India if they were successful. She describes Dr Gliandi as an ascetic, and as a Tolstovian anarchist. She asserts that lie disbelieved in railways, telegraphs, and modern innovations of every kind, and that lie wishes humanity to revert to the state of nature. Until his arrest, she declares, Dr G'lmndlii was regarded hv superstitious Indians as a supernatural man. Things she. said, quietened immediately after his arrest, lint there was still a large amount of unrest in India .though the outlook was brighter. Sjpmc intelligent Indians were regarding any concessions "ranted as an instalment of better-tilings to follow Inter, hut’ until complete, self-Govcrhinent were accorded Tmlin, she and those working with her would not he completely satisfied.

PomiliiinM Schools: H \ LUTE THE FLAG. SYDNEY. May 10. Mr liruiitell lias ordered all public* school children shnll lie lined up every Monday round the Union Jack to recite I salute my Flag,’’ the ceremony to conclude with the singing of one stanza of the National Anthem. REDLY TO MR LEY. SYDNEY, May 10. Mr Garden replying to Mr Ley said lie had neither the honesty lior common courtesy to prove specific charges made against Communist schools. The Minister, without apology, hedges and asks where are the schools, where Communism is taught. Had he telephoned the Labour Council lie would have been put light before launching his Campaign, which was really intended to discredit tile May Day. SALUTING AUSTRALIAN FLAG. SYDNEY, May 10. Mr Bruntnell, of flic Ministry, explains that the school children will salute tho Australian (lag. Thus they will ho saluting the Union Jack, which is incorporated therein. THE REASON WHY. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. The Hon. Mr Bruntnell, explained that tho reason for tho issuing of tho school order by the New South A\ ales Government was that there was a good deal being done in other directions to poison the minds of children against God, the King, and the British Empire. He said ho considered it imperative tliat lio should, so far as State schools were concerned, countorrtet any pernicious, influence by instilling iiitq tile minds of children their duty.