AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

IUB7RALIAN AND N.Z. CAUL! ASSOCIATION ECHO OF POLICE STRIKE. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 23. A motion for the second reading of a private Dill to provide compensation for those who suffered loss through buildings and property being damaged during the noliee strike riots was defeated in the Assembly by 2(5 to 40. PRODUCE PRICES. MELBOURNE, October 23. Barley (English) 5s to 5s (id ; oats 2s 9d, 3s; potatoes C2, C 3 ss; onions L'2(), U 27. TAXATION REDUCED. ADELAIDE, October 23. In Hie Assembly the Treasurer in his Budget speech said the deficit for the year was 053,259 and the estimated surplus for the coming year was L'9,9H9. The accumulated deficit was .01,592,488 and the public debt .070,100,104 or 0132 per head of the population, an increase of Oil for the year.

It was proposed to increase the general exemption from income tax from 0150 to 0200; also to increase the reduction for children from 030 to 050 where incomes do not exceed 00-iO. The loss will he made up by increased land tax.

FEMALE WORKERS’ WAGES. ADELAIDE. October 23

The Minister of Industries lias received a report from the Board ot Industries declaring .'Cs per week to he a living wage for female workers in the Metropolitan area. The report on I Ith August declared 35s the wage.

CM EAR ROWER

TASMANIA BENEFITING

(Received lids day at 10.25 a.m.) HOBART October 23.

In the annual report of the HydroElectric Department which was tabled in the Assembly it was slated that, there were prospects lor a large laclory for the manufacture of wood pulp and paper on the north coast. Ihe industry in all probability would involve a capital expenditure of approximately three million sterling stud would provide employment lor olio thousand men. At the commencement four thousand electric horse power would he required.

TREATMENT OF GANGER. BRISBANE, October 23

A deep theraphy department lor the treatment of cancer is to he established l,y tlie Government out ol funds from a lotteiy, at a cost of LT0.009. Every medical practitioner will have the right to treat a patient there and |ln* department will he made available to any patient in tin* State.

THE CAULFIELD MURDER

SE NS ATI ON A L I>EY E LOl’M E NTS

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 23. The detectives hint at the probability of sensational developments in connection with the unsolved murder „f Irene Tiickerman as the lesult ol a new inquest.

|On August, lit. a ' able from Melbourne said that the body of a girl, Irene Tiickerman, eleven years ol age, was found in a street at Caulfield early in the morning in a hessian hag. She was apparently strangled and believed t„ have been outraged. The girl left her home at Caulfield on Saturday morning and was not afterwards seen alive. A motor car was heard m the vicinity of where the body was iound. The eirl was a twin child one Tit a film'll v~of seven, of who... the mother j s widow of a returned soldier. Bruises about the neck and chest indicate a desperate struggle ami that a cord was used to strangle. Ihe attempt was apparently '".success! ul and made tho committal ot a criminal olfeiice.J

THE FEDERAL CAPITAL

expenditure TO DATE. MELBOURNE, October 23. T„ June 13th the total expenditure Canberra, the Federal capital, tuts co pn„, ( .99 of which 2752,090 was spent in land acquisition Iho expenditure on works was £••* *, , J,> * proposed expenditure for the com. g venr is £BOO,OOO. ' Nearlv twelve hundred workers are now engaged at Canberra. _