AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 3

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AUHTItALIAN AM) N.Z. OAHU! ASSOCIATION. HOT WEA'IH Ell. SYDNEY, February 19. Tl:c Thermometer registered 101 on Simdny. a record for the month "I 1'c I '- ruivry. \ BITTER ELECTION. BRISBANE. I'el) ll?. Rockhampton bye-election caused by the ntugnation of Mr V »rdc «"> <« 1 footed Higgins for C aprieoinia. «.«> won bv G. Farrell (Labour) by a inn- ; ioritv of 949. The contest was one ol the bitterest in the history ot Q»et land, the late of the Dover..n.ent depending on the result. MEDICAL CLINIC. “'"“'"■'iiS'S Government have established a psychiatry clinic, the first of its kmd. lor the purpose of providing medical skill lor persons suffering from early symp- j toms of mental, functional and nervous ; diseases. It was also hoped to edu- , ,-atc the medical profess.,,., on the essential features of mental diseases and to bridge the gap existing between psychiatry and general medicine. arbitration court. SYDNEY. Feb. 20. Mr Bavin has returned from a visit to Victoria and Tasmania where he conferred with both Attorney-Generals on the question of Commonwealth Industrial Powers. Four State Governments have agreed that public servants should be excluded from the Arbitration Court. The jurisdiction of the latter should he limited to certain industries considered of a federal chameter and the Court should be composed of Federal and State Judges who should hear appeals from State Courts where inter-St,ate competition was involved.