AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. (Received this day at 8 a. in.) SYDNEY, November 3. A motor car containing five passengers collided with a motor cycle near the ,1 cools n Caves and Patrick Fitzgerald and Duncan Forbes were killed. Three others, occupants of the car, and the driver and a passenger on the cycle "ere injured.

IVEETIME STRIKE COMMENCESSYDNEY, Novcnilier 3.

Ibe Waterside rs commenced their overtime strike, ceasing work on all inter-State wharves at five o’clock, although the companies intended to work several steamers during tho night and the sailing programme will ]>c adhered to.

A meeting of representatives of the transport group of Unions adopted a resolution condemning the action of the Melbourne Wntcrsidcrs in refusing to obey the decision of the Waterside Workers’ Conference. It was further resolved to notify the transport workers in Melbourne that all work after live o’clock is against tho prineiplo of unionism. The meeting also congratulated the committee of management in suspending the Melbourne branches.

OVERTIME. STRIKE STARTS. SYDNEY, November 3. In accordance with the decision reached at Saturday's meeting, no members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation commenced work on the wharves l>eforo eight o’clock this morning. Few vessels. however, are so far affected by this overtime strike. On all the overseas boats other than the Commonwealth Line, the Canadian Mercantile Marine, and the Wiltshire and Japanese Lines, work went on as usual, tho men working right through from their previous shifts.

At Newcastle the wharves are adnping tactics similar to those of the Svdlev men.

STRIKE ALMOST UNIVERSAL. MELBOURNE. Nov. 3. A fresh development has cropped up in connection with the waterfront trouble. ’lbe Committee of Management of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, which is the Governing Council for Australia, lias resolved to suspend tho .Melbourne branches for- deciding at Saturday’s meeting not to participate in the overtime strike. The Secretary of the Federation has telegraphed to the branches throughout the Commonwealth informing them that the policy adopted at the recent Sydney conference will ho strictly adhered to. It is stated that the Melbourne brandies are the only ones that have ignored the Federal body out of a. total of sixty-two In audios. HOBART. November 3. The waterside workers bore liave enforced the overtime strike, but. like Sydney, only certain lines are affected. On other vessels, the men have continued to work through shifts.

CHARGE OF CORRUPTION. SYDNEY, November 3. The Commission of Inquiry into Mr

'ropley's allegations against the City 'on licit to-day was resumed. Mr

roplcy lengthily detailed alleged over-

tures made on bis behalf of certain Aldermen regarding the payment of LTOIIO (as cabled). Cross-examined, .nr -C’ropley considered these sugges-

tions as an insult, and be bad llntly refused to listen to them. lie denied ever telling anybody there was live hundred pounds in it for them. The evidence disclosed that C'roplcy

had many interviews with the LordMayor and other Town Hall officials, and Aldermen, regard in*' the renewal of his leases.

BOY SCOUTS TOUR. SYDNEY, November 3. A batch of eighty-seven Boy Scouts, including ten New Zealanders in charge of Major Saudtorcl, returned from a tour of Europe. The New Zealand hoys will stay a month as guests ;rf the New South Wales Association.

SYDNEY FI HE. SYDNEY, November 3. Damage caused by a fire at the* I'.dion Swan Electric Co’s premises to ailed thirty thousand sterling.

WATERSIDE STRIKE. SYDNEY. November 4. As the result of the watersiders

overtime strike, several large steamers will bc> laid up immediately and in order to avoid otherwise inevitable congestion in various ports it is feared it may be necessary to lay up more tonnage. The Trolley and Draymens Elliott has not yet been officially informed of the watersiders action, and its members are doing -nothing in con-

nection with the trouble. Tt is reported that the steamer Ferndale of the Commonwealth line which does not employ bureau labour had to refuse a cargo of five hundred tons of wheat because of the attitude of the wharf labourers. This cargo w ill now be carried by some other vessel, and be loaded by bureau labour.

AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY

PEOPLE SUBSCRIBE TO LOAN

SYDNEY. Nov. 4. Afr Collins. Secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury, in » ' to members of the Sydney Stock Kx(.liaime. announced that the new Commonwealth loan of £10,300.000 which closed yesterday, bad been nearly milrscribed in full. ’ , A striking feature of the present loan. Air Collins said, was the Tact that the monev was coming from the people rather tli'a.l from the institutions. Ibe iivorsijic subscription "’os nboiit x*«and onlv twenty two subscriptions of over C 22.000 bad been received. Hus was a fair indication of the financial strength and prosperity of Australia. Onlv a few hundred thousand remain to he filled and if necessary the hanks will take the unsubscribed portion.

SOLDIERS' PENSIONS. SYDNEY. Nov. 4. Among the passengers who arrived from London by the Orcades. were Mr .Tames Crnigie (Tiniaru) and Dr. Izard (Wellington). Dr Izard while at Home, enquired, inter alia, into the administration of the English pensions system for returned soldiers. He said that he favoured the scheme, ami on his return to New Zealand would urge its adoption.

SHIPS’ STEWARDS SACKED. SYDNEY. Nov. I

There is a serious dispute threatened owing to the dismissal of forty-sev-en stewards from the Commonwealth liner. Aloreton Bay. On the last voya,»e Home two passengers became m-s-T'te and the Captain ordered the duel steward to tell off a steward to keep a witch over each of the patients. The stewards, as a body, refused to carry out his orders, and it was decided to take no artion until the vessel returned to Australia. An enquiry was held, hut no representative of the stewards was invited to attend and the full complement of the affected stewards was dismissed. -