AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN ANfl N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. j WALSH ISLAND YARDS. I (Received this dav at 11.30 a.m.) I SYDNEY, Dec. 5. j The State Government is considering I oilers for the sale of Walsh Island I Shipbuilding yards at Newcastle. Mr Ball (Minister) expresses the opinion that the State should sell its industrial enterprises, hut not sacrifice them. The yards arc valued at between seven and eight hundred thousand sterling. Broken Hill proprietary was desirotls of purchasing them dtiling the war, but the Commonwealth Government intervened and blocked the sale. STRANDED SERVICE MEN. SYDNEY. Dec. -V Major Hussain (secretary of the Imperial ex-Service League) states five or six men visit him daily socking

work or assistance. There are roughly three hundred ex-service men stranded in Sydney. The bulk have bad no previous experience. A number wore sent oiiL bv the Overseas settlement branch of the . British Legion, of which General Haig is the supreme head. Hussain instancing individual eases of hardship, mentions Major Kendrick of the Royal Engineers. with several distinctions in the Army and Navy who was second aide tie camp to Lord Jollicoe at the Battle of Jutland, and whose wounds in that engagement compelled his retirement from the Navy. Although Kendrick holds diplomas in mechanical marine, and mining engincring, lie is unable to obtain employment in Australia. SEAMEN’S OFFER. SYDNEY. Dec A. The Seamen's Union passed a resolution that- it will man the I'limaroa. il their six dismissed colleagues are reinstated, or if a new engineer, officers, and stokehold crew are engaged. A DENIAL. | BRISBANE. Dee A. I Mr Theodore states that Queensland is not the State referred to by General Haig respecting till thousand sterling request from the Government. It was a gross misrepresentation to say ex-

,Scrvicii men acre starving. Some returned soldiers had been unemployed, but the Commonwealth and State Governments liatl spent seventy thousand poitnsd in providing employment. i SMI I’IM.NG HOLD-UP. j Received this dav at 12.2-7 p.mA < SYDNEY. Dec : It, is expected the Moeraki will lie manned bv labour and despatched before the end cf the week. .01 efforts to settle the ITimaroa. trouble having failed- tbe Company is paying oft h crew and laying tip the steamer indefinitely. • , FEDERAL- ELECTIONS. SYDNEY. Dec. A. Tbe Federal election campaign so far j is lacking much excitement though there has been a fair amount of the usual lincm washing. Mr Hughes, in b\s new electorate of North Sydney, meets onlv a single opponent. Ridding- , ten, (Independent). As. however, the litter i arri-Y the bulk of labour, a fairly h aw anti-l!ughcs vote is pro-| liable,. The Prime /Minister is | likely to have a fly away victory. NEW GOVERNOR. Adelaide. Dm- a. Tbe now Governor, General Bridges anil family have arrived. Tney were heartily welcomed.