AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

AUSTHAI lAN AND N.Z. CAB LA AnSOtUr •> lON . ARBITRATION ACT. j (Received this day at 10.15 a.m ; 1 SYDNEY, Sept. 13. i Tile Attorney General announced hej is introducing a hill to amend the Ar- i bitrntion Act in the direction of reorganising tlio Board of Trade, repeal- . ing the section preventing the Court fixing the wages of Crown employees at lower yate than that ruling outside the service, withdrawing the Court’s ( poii'er to make awards for rural wink- i ers, withdrawing the public service | from jurisdiction of the Arbitration ■ Court, granting ]iower to the Court to | refrain making an award or to suspend; operations of awards where an industry is nliable to hear it, or where employees are benefiting by profit sharing" or copartnership schemes. 1 Albert Green, member for Derby in the Commons, is visiting Australia on behalf of the Board of Trade. He considers Germany should provide material for the ionstruction of the liarhour bridge and rails for the unifica-. ! tion of the railways as payment ot th ‘ ; indemnity. He says the proposal 1 - . backed by a growing influence in England. I RACER SOLD. j SYDNEY, Sept. 13 I Radiant Light has been purchased privately by A. P. Wade. The price is not mentioned. . j CHURCH UNION. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. i The Presbyterian Assembly passed a resolution that Hie report of Hie Committee on the basis of Church union lie referred to the Sta*e Assen lilies, 1 res- . bvteries Associations and eongreg.i- . tions for approval or otherwise; also that t-lie Assembly recommends c<>-1 operation with a view to the union ho actively prosecuted. WESTRALJA’S BUDGET. PERTH, Sent. 13. The Premier’s budget disclosed a deficit of £732,000. The net lean debt is £4(1,589,000. Government proposes t„ :xp nil a six million loan in making provision for settling immigrants on farms. CRANSTOWN TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, September 12. To-day an inquest was held on the victims of the Hampton tragedy, »> which the household of Dr Cranstown were nearly all killed, presumably through the administration of mor- • phi.i by the Doctor himself. The Coroner found a verdict that on August Btli., or thereabouts, Doctor Cranstown died by his own hand, and that his three sons and Miss Bayliss died from narcotic poisoning, administered by Dr Cranstown, whom a postmortem showed to have been mentally '