AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUSTRALIA MARS COLOURED CHILDREN. MELBOURNE, May 19. Senator Rearce lias announced a new regulation which prohibits the entry into Hie Commonwealth of any Chinese children as students under the age of 11. The regulation ‘also applies to Indians and Japanese.

SHIPPING DISPUTE. MELBOURNE. May 19. In the Arbitration Court, the Steamship Owners’ Association applied for a variation of award in the direction <ahled yesterday. The application was adjourned until Friday next. Tile aflidavit bv the Association contains allegations of job control, and lelating circumstances leading to the holding-up of the Katoomba and Kamilla at Sydney, Hie Komura at Newcastle, and the Sams at Port Pirio. it states that a fireman in December last went aboard his ship drunk at Wiirrambool, insisted on taking liis effects, and leaving the ship, and lie was logged as deserted. On March —Otli. ’the affidavit proceeds, the Assisi ant Secretary of the Sydney Branch of the Seaman’s Union then boarded the vessel, and said the tiroman should not have been logged as a deserter, blit should have boon dismissed. It added that unless the entries in the log were cancelled, ho would not let the ship sail. The official then told the crew not to lake the ship to sea, and that he would lake all the responsibility. Thu ship bad been held up ever since.

AUSTRALIA ENCIRCLED. MELBOURNE. May 19. The airmen Goble and Mclntyre toihi.v arrived here on scheduled time, alter completing their liiglit. round Australia. They were enthusiastically welcomed by large crowds. TRAMS RESUME. MELBOURNE. May 19. The tramway service to-day resumed. The gripmaii, who was the cause of the strike, has applied for reinstatement, and the Board had decided to reinstate him on the Ist of July, upon his giving an ini(i"rtaking to obey the Board's orders. OBITUARY.

LONDON, May Is Obituary. Lord llandon. The Sinn Feiners caplincd him in 1921 but released him alter three weeks. ELECTRIC SAFETY LAMPS WANTED. SYDNEY, May 2D. A meeting of the miners of the Pelawmain, Richmond. Main Stanford and Merthyr collieries decided that unless they received satisfaction by the end of June regarding the installing of electric safety lamps the millers would urge tlnil coal product inn llmmghoiii Australia cease until they obtained .satisfaction. The meeting urged the Central Council of the Workers’ Industrial Utiiui to immediately convene aggregate meetings throughout the ('ommiiuweallli to endorse the decision.

N.S.W. POLITICS.. SYDNEY. Mnv 2'. Sir Geo. Fuller delivered a preScsAnnul policy soeeeb nl Wnggn, when be outlined the measures he proposed t.o bring before Parliament during the furthcoming sc.-simi. lie reviewed the record of the Government and chunied licit it bencliled every section of the community. BATHURST GAOL RIOT. SYDNEY. May 2D. Over twenty prisoners, mure or less were injured during the riot at the Bathurst gaol. Most of the ringleaders are still waiting to he dealt with. The chief warder was entirely exonerated. AUSTRAL.'* \ F f. iG li T COMI’I. ETED . .MELBOURNE. .May 2D. The aviator. Goble and Maclntyre have completed their Might round Australia. They covered 8..'.(1D Hides ill

:i|iproxinmlely hours. They say that miieli country along the Coa t appeared dill',-rent to that shown "U the maos.

BUTTER MARK KT SPLIT. SYDNEY. May 2-” (living to a split in the wholesale hotter market buyers were yesterday coal rootl'd w ith the eluiiee of two substantially different prices. The Butter Advisory Uninmiliee raised the price to 172 s Sd, hut tile Coastal Earmers’ Society disttgreeil with this, holding that I,ther Stall's run Id Hood and thereby inntriil the market with I'lmaper I.utter. and so jeopardise the prospects ol resale. Large slocks are held by the New South Wales factories to meet winter shortage-. Ihe eoa-tal larmers : aid their’s at Kills Id.

labor split Threatened. SYDNEY. May \ leriomi split in the ladioiir movement is threatened owing to tlte -c tinu ballots. ’I lie si'i-relary ot itii l New Sooth Wales Labour Council said that unless the Australian Lai I’ai'iy Executive aeeedeil to their request to call a special ( oiiterence. the i'onneil itself would convene one. lie said that over thirty indu.-trial organisations bail carried resolutions demanding the abolition of the selection ballots.

POLICE UNION’S RESOLUTION" URISBANE. May 2IV

After a stormy meeting, during which a hostile demonstration was made against the Executive tor accepting the Government's terms of .settlement. the Police Union passed a resolution accepting the terms, but reset".iu.r the right to take whatever drastic action that was deemed deemed necessary .should the Government fail to do the right thing.

POLICEMAN SHOT AT. BRISBANE. May 20. \ man was seen running along the Street at Roma after the shot was hoard, lie took til' second shot at the constable and hit him on the arm. The constable gave chase hut owing to loss of blood he was unable to keeppace with the fugitive, win, ha> not yet- been ruptured, hut is known. SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA. A PROFESSOR’S VIEWS. * Received this day at 11.2-1 a.m.) SYDNEY. May 2- .

Griffith Taylor. Professor of Geo-iq-aphv at the Sydney University. lecturing on the future settlement of Australia declared that the climate in the arid tropical areas is one of the most' varied and unreliable in the world. He refused to Believe that Australians hi live under climatic conditions, which were fatal to white people »n other parts of the world. Australia s desert was larger than any other m the world, except Sahara; yet a lot of short-sighted non-patriotic people were trying to force the Federal Government to spend millions to open our

empty spaces. We should not spend n penny of public money to promote .settlement in those most unsuitable regions. At present 99 per cent, of the population was settled along the outer areas. He was of the opinion that future settlement should followon the same lines. There wa.s plenty of room for twenty millions in Australia, but not in tlie great empty spaces of Central and Western Australia or in the tropical north and west.