AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1924, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUBTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

JIHiX AND STEEL INDUSTRY

eivi.'d tin- day at In a.in.) .Melbourne. .inly 12.

.Melbourne. juiy 12. Tlic Turid" Boards annual report, tabled in tliu 11 on si* ol Rcproxentaiivi's, slates that as :i result of disturl.i'il post war conditioii*, the Board Ini' become ;ij>prt'h<'~ivo coin erning ill.' future of llic iron, stool mnl engineering industry. Tin- position tlircnloil' lo become sii'iito despite the lilu'l'ul turid' protection :nn! tiiciv i' no certainty yd :c. to tt lid her or not further liicii'iirc.' nrc required to !,.• ton.'iilclcil I»y I’lirliiiini'iit slioulil tin-ri' l.c no tliniiiiulioii ol the pres.'tire from countrie' tvilli lower slamlafil> of living :■ 11 • I wages. BROADCASTING REGULATIONS. .MELBOURNE. July 12. Air liruce Inis nniiouiiri'il the details of the new regulations governing broadca't ing in Australia. Hu said the system o' sealed sets proved so tlllsati.'facloi'y that the Mini-try decided to adopt a new lia.-is. The existing licenses tontiniied hut sealed -cts \till lie done away with.

Anyone wiil he aide to receive brnad-c-ii sii'il programmes, pruviiled they have paid the license tee tor the programme ri'iiived. Fur the pui-p-iso of fixing the annual lees, lie stated it wnuld he divid' d into three X’ l in". I lie fees ranlt inini Jos to Jos in l!)2I anil il'lin JIN in the following year. Special liicli-es a ill he i—lied for lintels, etc. Where the protilresults, tanging IRi in £7 Ills, dealer's lus.-u-ei will lie issued at a charge of £o to t'2 according to lilt* /.oiii'. Experiment liieiise- will cosi -Jin in |As. COAI.MUNITY HOSI'ITAI.S. AIOYEAIENT IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY. duly J. Tho foci. I hot the lees • hunted hy private hospitals are in many ca-'c-<lljitv beyond the means of numbers of persons who tire anxious tor the rnniiort alli.l privacy of such institutions imainly re-ponsihle iur a movement in the hip; northern suburbs of Sydney, known peiierally its the North Shine, lor the c-lnhlislimeiii of a community hospital. The idea, of eniirso, is to provide for those who, not dcsiron- ol poinp into :i piddle hospital, are yet limihle to pay the liiph lees (harped peiierally hy private hospitals- in short, the middle class. Willi tin ciiilmvmcnt or two. and a Government perilni. it i- Itelii'vi-.l that a community hospital multi easily he made soil-slip-p.illillg. with a few business heads tit the l>aeh Ilf it. As illiistratinp the need l'ir such tut institution, instances have hecll piven of rail's charged by some private hospitals. In a ease where the operation was simply tin explnratoty one. t.-n guineas was charged ju-trely I'm the Use ol the operatinp room. Then there i; the case quoted of a patient who was eltttrped lor three lint ties of brandy, when actually only three nips had heen consumed. At an enthusiastic mcctinp :tl which tue movement was launched, charpos nl six, seven, and eipht pnineas a week fur ordinary mtr-ing were condemned as unjust. .Mediettl men as well as clerpymcit and other rcprcscnialive i-iti/etis are throwiup their weight into Lite movemeiu. What with the liiph cost of livitip. tlie hiph cost of Iteinp ill. and the high cost of ilyinp. people are really in a hit of a i|iiandary iti-- 1 now.

C'riKAlM'iU ELEC TRUTi'Y. SYDNEY. .Tuiy J

In a month or two there will he placed .before the City l 'mi mi I hy the pcneral matiaper of it- electricity department. a scheme which aid aim. not only at popularising the use of electricity for power ami boating. hut also at reducing Mihstatitially the eharpes lor current. All that i- known of the .-clieme at present is that the whole ol liie current used hy consumers will he measured throtipli om- meter. 'I here will he a cliarpe for the estimated amount of lipliliitp. measured acrorditip m the tluor spice, That will he on tin? liiplier scale, hut the lest of the current consumed will he eluirpeil on ti very low scale. The idea is to reducethe. ci>.-t ol readilip the meters ami of rendering ;teenunt.s. timl hy this tnoaii'-. eli'n t a reduction for consumers. Hut t!te way of tie- reformer is aiwav.- hard. The |.aimin' aldermen have protested apaiu-t the new system, mi the primud that it will mean unemployment of several score of meter-readers and the liu-s----senper hoys who deliver iteeiniiits, j list as they prutcsteil against the -a I fate of the block-buv s because motor-ears are ou-tinp the horses from the city streets.