AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1924, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSN., COPY-RIGHT. A DECENT PRIZE. SYDNEY, March 29. The first prize in the Firemen’s Art Union valued at £l,lOO was won by J. Siddells of Palmerston North. OLYMPIC TENNIS. SYDNEY, March 29. New South Wales Tennis Association has decided to send Bay ley and AVillaid to the Olympic Games, subject to tho approval of the Australian Tennis Council. WEST UAL lAN ELECTION. •PERTH, Miyrch 29. The final election returns give Labour twenty-live out of fifty- seats. .MELBOURNE, .March 29. In the Senate, Mr Gardiner moved an amendment to the Imperial Conference resolutions, similar to that moved in the House of Representatives. The debate was unfinished and was adjourned. In tho House of Representatives, Labour members did not take part in the debate on Mr Bruce's motion, the discussion being confined to -Ministerialists.

Mr Bowden announced tho decision to sink the battleship Australia was irrevocable, and would not be submitted to a vote of Parliament, as suggested by some members. FLOODS. SYDNEY, March 29. As a result of heavy rain the Yana river Hooded, submerging the low-ly-ing suburbs. ILicvy rains are reported in the Country centres. TRADE RETURNS. MELBOURNE. March 29. The Statistician’s repott stales during the past three years, the factories have been expanding at the rate of 7.19 per annum and on an average 11,872 additional employees were absorbed each year. The capital invested in factories in 1922-23 amounted to £100,513,629 sterling compared with £113,017,105 in 1919-20. During the past year there were 19,109 factories employing 415,349 workers and the value of the output was £320,448,189.