AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

IOBTRAi.IAN AND N.Z. DA PM ASSOCIATION VESSELS f.AID UP. MELBOURNE. Dec. 30. The Maritime Unions have enlivened a coulerenee for the formal inn of a Maritime Council to deal with the dispute. There arc twenty-one inter-St,-itr vessels laid up in Melbourne as the result of the strike. I.ITHGOW TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. December 39. At the inquest on James Dwyer, whose death near Lithgow was cabled on December 2.3 th.. a verdict of suicide was returned. PRICE OE DREAD INCREASED. SYDNEY, December 31. The price of bread from Monday next, will be increased to .3 .Id over the counter in I lie met rnpoli lan area and to 7>jjd in the suburbs. The Atturney-GenernL Mr Bavin, states the increase is part of the price we have to pay for the general prosperity in our primary industries. Owing to the high prices of wheat which are due to world costs and over which we have no control, the price of flour has increased and with it the price of bread. The primary producers have bad a pretty bad time in recent years and they are fully entitled to the benefits they are now receiving from the present state of the world’s market lor their produce. \\ e cannot expect them to sell to the local consumer at less than the world’s parity. That being so, we shall have to put lip with the increase in the price of bread.

BRITISH SOCCER TEAM. SYDNEY, December 31. The Commonwealth Football Association lias received cabled advice that a British Soccer team will tour Australia about the middle of next year and should the New Zealand Association decide to participate in the tour, the team will have ten Saturdays in Australia and six in New Zealand, the visitors returning via Vancouver. SYDNEY EIRE ALARMS. SYDNEY, December 31. Rp to nine o’clock on the 30th id December 2051.3 alarms were recorled in the Svilnev fire district, a deer rase as compared with the correspo.i ’.mg time of the previous year. Eire calls in the country unmoored 702. NEW COYS. IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, December 01. During the past year 530 new .Hinted liabilities companies, with a nonnmd capital of Cl 1,310.000 anil seventyeight foreign companies with a ncmmil capital id! 013,000,211 were registered in this state. UIELE SHOOTING. HOBART, December 31. ,\t the Commonwealth Ritle nesting at' Dauncestor W. G. Cutler (■>«’ Smith Wales) won the Kings pn/e with a score of 23d. VIOLENT SCENES PERTH. Bee. 31 ■ Violent scenes occurred at a meeting of Lite Wharf Labourers l nimi. "bn nute. when the men who.-e ios were with siiUrrs’ 1 * v'igilnnee officer, was howled down and attacked hv three m ..... being simultaneously kicked ami trampled upon before the altackei. " P \t tlio conclusion of the meeting the Union officials said it was remark., > c , . i ~ , W 4, ‘••poke* 1,1 PERTH. Dec. 31. ■ Me 0. attend the races as mteiuled.