AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

IUSTKALIAN AND N.Z. CA'IDK ASSOCIATION

RAILWAY enquiry

‘Received this day at e a.m.i SYD.YKA', July :tO. Hiving c, idem c ; g the Royal Commission enquiring into the railways, consisting of visiting experts, Sii -Mark Sheldon (President of the Chamber ot Commerce; said the administratjon o| 'i,he lailMays should l>e. tree Irom. political influence which at present was exercised to a blanking extent. He instanced the. city railway, which he stated. everyone knew was not being run on business lines, hut as a politic expedient. A CENSURED .MOTION. SYDNEY. July HO. In the Assembly .MoTienmm gave notice ot lii.s intention ot moving that the action of (loveriniieiit in prosecuting I'nion officials in connection with

i e Port Lyttelton hold-up was deserving of censure. The matter veil come ilietore the House on Thur.sdav

(TLAI.I.KNOK to AIMHTRATION COCRT. SYDNEY. July 111. Leading branches of the federated Engine Diivcrs ami Kiremeiis Assooia.tion ro iterated their defiance of t’he A rbi tra t ion Court, cabled e.n —Oth.. and decided to instruct, the federal President anil Secretary to refuse to accept the j rop'osed new award, and to form a Council of action to dismiss intnre action to he taken.. It was agreed that if the new claims are refused, a strike to be called and it was decided to get in touch with l.a-l-aur Councils throughout- Australia with a view to securing a united front hy all organi-ed Labour, in pressing their claims. .MAWSON EXPEDITION S.YII.S. Received this dav at. S a.in.) ■DARWIN. July :11. The Maw-on imnitive expedition, consisting of twenty men under Col. Storey lum sailed In the steamer Huddersfield.

OCKEXSEAXD SI'OAR. (Received this day at tI.LYi ~niA SYDNEY. July til. Arrangements have, been made |,- ship thirty thousand tans ef (Juoeiishitid’s sugar mop to Rritaiu. This disposes in' more than half the estimated .surplus.

MELIJOCRNK. July t.M. bailed —.Moeraki lor Wellington. THE RANK ROHMERY. FURTHER DETAILS ’ Received rhis dav at P2 neon). MELMOERXK. July til. The hank robber secured L'otiS sterling. The telephone wires bad been cut inside the bank. apparently hy someone with an intimate knowledge of the premises. Alter Chit lock fired the first slml the intruder closed with him ami a desperate struggle followed. The furniture was upset and smashed. Eventually the revolver was w lem-lird from the teller's hand. The man fired two shot', wounding Chitlock in the left hand ami the left loot, compelling him to release Ids hold. The rubber then rushed to tin counter and secured the notes, escaping over the fence where lie dropped twenty-eight singles which were lound later. The manager, who had gone out to try to get into telephone touch with the head olliee, returned after the struggle was over and found Chittoek wounded. The police were called quickly to the scene hut they tailed le discover any clue. Chittoek, who is a returned soldier, was conveyed to the hospital. His wounds are not serious. Neighbouring shopkeepers heard the shots, hut thought the hank employees were indulging in a little prael lee. It is evident from the manner the telephone wires were cut. and tin alacrity with which the robber seized the teller’s revolver, that he had a knowledge of the hanking premises. An interesting tact is that the ( <>mmereial hank is in the neighbouring Mil, mb to Cleiileirie where the hank manager Jierriman was killed in somewhat similar circumstances last year. The scene of the robbery is in t,H ’ centre of the business premises of Canterbury. STEAMER “15 LACK” SYDNEY. .Inly 111. The Seamen’s Union lias decided to declare the fordsdale "black’ «>" ’ rival at Sydney 10-dav. A CURRENCY trourlh. MEI.I IiI'RNE. .Inly :d. \n iiflicinl statement on beliall ol the Associated Ranks Yieloria. .-ays wool valued at- sixty millions sterling. J' ■" danger of lying idle in Australia it tin* representations of bankers to tbe ( »nimonwenlth Note Hoard are unsuccessful. A bank ollieial states tbe trouble is that the* country’s requirements have increased emiruiqusly. while the currency lias not increased in proportion. Haring the last two years deposits have increased hy over thirty millions sterling. yet the hanks are actually working on less currency