AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[by Ti:r,i:iiit.\rii i• i.ll rises* association.] NEW POSTAL SCHEDI’LE. MEL ROC RN E. June 21. The Kctleial Public Service Hoard has lixed the classification and salaries of the officers in the mail branches for the Commonwealth. Ihe maximum salaries of superintendents range from £(il2 at Perth to £S7d at Sydney, assistant .superintendents, £-180 to £(!.’ti; and supervisors C.OB-1 to £(100. ’I lie classification provides for an annual review of the scales of salaries. The Board has decided that the Commonwealth Statistician’s figures regarding the cost of living shall he taken into consideration on the first <>l April each rear, and where the index liuuiexceeds a given limit, nr is lielow a stated figure, the salaries shall he increased or decreased accordingly. The right of appeal is provided for.

COMMERCIAL CHEMIST KILLED MELBOERXE, June 2.1.

Carl Holt/., a son of the general nut linger of I he newspaper “ Age ” was killed through becoming entangled m the machinery at tile Mount I ..veil -Mining Company’s works at I*ooUerny, where he wa- cinoloyed as a coinmereial ehemist. Ilis clothing caught in the belting, and lit- was whirled around the shafting, sustaining dreadmi injuries. He diet! in a few hours. II;. was aged twenty-two.

TIMBER MILL DESTROYED. MELBOERXE. June 23. Garlieks timber mill at Pnwclltown was completely destroyed by lire, the damgae being estimated at £IO,OOO.

BISHOP KAVOERf* COLOI RED LABOUR. PERTH. June 28.

Bishop Trower, of Broome, after fourteen years’ experience of Hie northern area of Australia, declares emphatically for the introduction of coloured labour. He urges the system or bringing indentured labourers from southern India and suggests that the natives he imported in famdv groups with a proviso that the children be deported with the parents when their term of indenture ends.