AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1924, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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PRODUCERS' COMPANY

SYDNEY, April 20

Pastoralists are considering the formation of a company with a capital of three million sterling to develop the meat industry. It is proposed to provide a shipping service of sixteen-knot motor-driven refrigerated vessels;, the erection of works on King’s Sound, and a railway to connect Kimberley districts with Townsville. TOO MANY HOLIDAYS CONDEMNED. SYDNEY, April 2b. The Chambers of Commerce Conference adopted resolutions expressing satisfaction with Mr Bruce’s attitude oil imperial Air -Defence, and hoping that negotiations for Australian and Canadian preference will reach an early, satisfactory termination. The Conference condemned the proclaiming of too many holidays. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE FAVORED. SYDNEY, April 2(5. In the course of a speech Sir .John Fuller said the Government, believed in private enterprise. It had disposed of seven out of eleven of its trailing concerns, and was prepared to get rid of the other four.

LABOR RESOLVES. SYDNEY, April 20. Tho Labour Conference adopted resolutions urging a removal of the present .strangling regulations upon wireless telephony and telegraphy, affording every facility for its encouragement, in rural areas of the Commonwealth. VICTORIAN MINISTRY. MFLBOI AN F, April 2b. .Mr Peacock has fodmed a new Ministry as follows:- - Ml- Peacock, Premier, Treasurer and .Minister of Lands. Sir Arthur Robinson, Attorney-Gen-eral and Solicitor-General. Doctor Argyle, Chief Secretady and Minister of Health. * Mi- Oman, Minister of Immigration. Mr Eggleston, Minister of Railways. Mr Cohen, Legislative Councillor ami Minister of Public Works ami ol Mines. Mr Gordon. Minister of Agriculture and Water Supply. .Mr Toucher, Minister of Education and Forests. Messrs Groves, Bcardmore, Brown and .McGregor (the last two Legislative Councillors) Honorary Ministers. SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. SYDNEY, April 25. A linseed silo, about seventy-five feet high, ol Aleggitt’s Linseed Oil .Mills, Parramatta, collapsed and caused damage estimated at ten thousand sterling. The. weight of the linseed burst the wall, the debris bringing down with it a huge chimney. The mas, el linseed and chimney fell with a deafen-

ing crash upon the boiler and refinery buildings, id! of which were- razed io tho ground. A score of employees were wr,iking in a mill alongside tho silo. * Fortunately one man saw the wall crack and warned his mates, all of whom made a quick escape. A MIX’S DEATH. SYDNEY. April 25. An elderly man named John Ai oleaster, was found King in a road near Wane., v.it.ii a gaping wound on the forehead and other minor injuries. He was taken to the hospital where ladied. lie stilted a quarrel developed between two men whom he endeavoured to pacify, and he was knocked down, kicked ami .struck on the head with a stick. Subsequently two men were in-rested. IMPORTATION 1-OB BID DEN. AIELEDERNK, April 2(5. The Federal Government has forbidden tin* impurtuLinn iota Australia ol bay, straw ami fodder from United States, owing to foot and mouth disease there. TEACUELLS’ RESOLUTIONS. ADELAIDE, April 20. Inter-State school teachers’ Conference resolved in favour of raising the comniih-ary school age to sixteen ami establishment of special schools for the mentally deficient. ASHORE ON REEF. SYDNEY. April 25. News concerning the steamer Tin-terlii-.r, ashore at New Ireland, is meagre, but it is believed that the crew are stiil aboard. Should there be any 1■ j til weather, however, it is considered the vessel will heroine a total wreck.