AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AfSTItAM AN ANJ) L. I'.lia.E A-SSOCiet lON j MIXKIt.S OX S'i IMF!:. (Received this day at 12.2 d p.m.) j SYDNEY, Nov. If’. | The miner- .arc on strike at s'.wvtl (ollicrics mi the northern livlds owii.e, to various grievances. The owners complain that while the tenoral 101 lis leUtiosling employment' tor lln- millers wim are idled through the lack of trade, at West Wallseml. their colleagues in adjacent mines are ceasing work on 1 the merest pivicNl or noli.- at all. AI STli ALIAN DEEI’LNt E A CTI ll)lt 1-| TIES RATED. J i SGDNLY. Nov. Id. | , Sir -John .Monn.sh. in re'eu: rk ing that 1 he had served ins connection -on 111.Australian DiTenee ioree as tliere was no room f-,r him in the present sy.-tem, warned the authorities again-t a |o- i lies of drill, lie says tle.it the air force > is a sham and the artillery wool: lasi ; only a few bolus. Australia would ho iliiable to 11 ■:ti 1!I:ti!I a haltlo a iild ( not seen a tank in Ailslnilia. Thong:, he would be pop; -rod lor making oi.a statements lie wanted to lraukl;. i- o the people of the position so lhai A as- t li-iiiia would not continue the policy ol , unprepa redness. i Sl-ECIAL CONSTABLES' LAY. j ( MELBOI'iINE. Nov. 1:1. ‘ Cabinet ha, approved of MeCay's j scbeine and ih-eided to oiler .-.peeial constable- Ids per day. \.\' \TOMY DEI’AHTMENT ; OPENED. , M E!.BOL!! NE- Nov. IT. | Sir William Maeewali opened the new j anatomv departmen’. at the l inversity. j j in the I'.reseme of the Medical t olga- j Tin* l.tiiMiuji i> <tt*sli'iiii'tl , ai commodate six hundred ‘•tudeiits. It ( £7[).(id 1. tin- being gnt> to tme State Government. At a s U bse.|iiei;t reception to the , ih-lmeitcs .1 Svme. President ol the Connies .' delivered an atldivss on the ravages of di-vase, and the urgent necessity for effective research work to combat it. GENERAL MONASH'S WARNING. •■Received tills day at 12. Id p-tnd j SYDNEY. Nov. Hi j to-ue,-id Momi-h added that lots oi j 1 ,b, ... da vs are talking that j , I here i- going to la- no more war, that J we have the League ci Nation.-. ,m 'l | Mich shibboleths. We- there any maul who had read history, who believed j stu b a thing. Of course human mt- j tore was evolving better tilings, and j sooner or later we would find pallia-j tives to make war rarer perhaps, hut | that we would ever succeed in P''c- | venting war he was one of those vi, > j did not believe. He was a keen en-

thusiastic supporter of the League of Nations, hut it was going too tar to say that because it had potentialities . j,,. people of Australia need not bother further. Such a view was like deciding that we would have no more burglaries ami dismissing the police. Referring to the steadily diminishing defences vote, he said we were not morelv destroying the defence force, hut were destroying our lecaii- ef recreating it. Me should accent tlte responsibility of training sufficient and an adequate nucleus of trained commanders and staffs. Tn stead of that they were being reduced every day.