AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. [Koceived this day at 11.80 si.in.) SYDNEY, Eel,. 22 The annual report of the Historical Society refers to the intervention of the Society in frustrating the effort to change the name Tasman to AiV'.ac. The report adds “The Society yields t<, none in admiration for the Anz.aes but we should honour the A tissues without sacrilegious disregard for the past.”

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY, Lei'. 2.1. It was stated at the Trades TTnll tliat Tom Mann cat out his Australian visit owing to the Commonwealth not granting him a passport. The City Council considered eightyone applications for the post ol city surveyor and reduced the number to thirteen by ballot, Alderman Walter Rush of Town Hall, Auckland, topping the, list with fifteen votes. In, (piiries are being made whether the remaining applicants are returned soldiers. , Cabinet ordered the State limber yards to he closed immediately. Two hundred men will be paid off. i The Labour Party discussed Mr Dooley’s relationship with the movement and adopted a resolution that it had not lost confidence in him, hut urged him to seek further inquiry at the annual conference. New South Wales team to meet Maclaren’s eleven will he—Collins, Kippax Oldfield, Macartney, Mailcy. Scott. Kellewav, Taylor, Hendry, Andrew*, Bardslev. Gray is twelfth man. SYDNEY, I'eh. 23. As a commentary on the continued cry of increasing unemployment. the annual report of the Benevolent Society states that in the spring o. L)-l ■the'number of families drawing Society’s relief was 1,200 weekly. In I he' spring of 1922 it had declined to 700, and at the end of the ycai it laid fallen to less than halt. Ihe report- draws the conclusion that there was less unemployment to-day. accompanied by extreme necessity than liarl been the‘case for some years past. Government have appointed a State Commission to co-operate with I’edoia Commission in promoting Australian representation at the Empire Exhibition, which is intended to he most upresent at ive.

yachting [Received this dav at 10.30 o.m ) SEDNEA , I'd,. 23 The yacht Thistle (New So " tl ' Wales) won the second heat amt lie sailing championship of Aust, . : ! which carries with it the Forster ( up The Thistle’s win gives her tin <up outright.

FEDERAL CABINET. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in ! MELBOURNE. l<eb. >3. The Federal Cabinet is occupied in apportioning the duties of new MinistZ and decided to reduce the number of Ministerial ears from thirteen to eight-.