AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1924, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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LECTURES FOR COUNTRY CENTRES. SYDNEY, Aug. 14

In flic- Assembly, Mr Hruntnell announced that ii was proposed shortly to introduce a system under which university lectures could he delivered in countrv centres. The Senate felt that it was necessary that students should he placed in personal contact with the lecturer himself, and had agreed to * system of visits by capable lecturers to the country.

JUMPING RECORD. BRISBANE, Aug. 14. The Chamber of Agriculture Societies has decided to recognise the jKwformance of Mr A. L. Payne’s Hector in jumping seven feet and a quarter inch at Bowen as a world’s record for a # poiiv 13.2 hands. loans to soldiers. MELBOURNE. Aug. 1 L To the 30th of June last 24,3*1 war service homes were provided 5n the Commonwealth, and an additional 1-.33 were in the course of erection or planned. The capital ex]>endiiure ainountto '£19,021,090. it was announced in the Assembly that arrears amounting to approx, mutely £3.000,000 were due by soldier settlers throughout Victoria to the W Closer Settlement Board, which is considering the question of extending the terms of the leaseholds and allotting payment of arrears to he nmed up m sinstalments.