AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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SYDNEY ELECTRICITY SUPPLY THE MAYOR HAS A MAY. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) SYDNEY, February -5. The Lord .Mayor in a statement regarding the proposed new power house, said he had formally asked the State Government, through the .Minister lotWorks, to co-operate with the City Council in regard to the supply of electricity lor the metropolitan area. In Lhe event of a refusal the Council would proceed with the erection of the power house in a manner which would prevent the Government having an opportunity to refuse sanctioning a loan for the purpose.

RECORD COAL OUTPUT. SYDNEY, February Coal production in New South W'i'.s for the year 1924 contitutes a it-curd as compared with any previous yivr. The years production amounted to 11 .(118,21U tons, valued at the pit mouth.at C 9.589.547, this being an increase over 1923 of 113,963 tons v.i lied £981,655. The highest tonnage recorded previously was 10,793,3*7 m 1921. The total output oi coke !< r 1921 was 561,362 tons, valued at .£932,933, being a decrease of 16.012 tons valued at £8397 as comm h 1 with the previous year.

BROADCASTING TROUBLES. SYDNEY, February 5. The “ Daily Telegraph” dealing with the subject of broadcasting says it is officially known there are 25,031 listen-ing-in radios fn New South Males. Unofficially it is conservatively esti-

mated the number actually exceeds one hundred thousand. Accordingl.' there are at least seventy-live thousand law breakers. .Meanwhile the radio trading business is slumping daily and broadcasting appears dead so far as developments are concerned. Generally the position is as unsatisfactory as it could he. 4 lie “Telegraph’” dcnls“wit.h various causes contributing to the alleged evasions, including an objection to pay such a high license fee as 35s yearly and the ton tention hF others that the Government has no legal right, under the present law to lew a fee. The paper urges the’pressing need for reconsideration of the whole question in order to end the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs.

SWIMMING

SYDNEY, February ». The. 440 yds. Ladies Swimming Championship of X.S. Wales resulted : - Tills..; Webselau 1, Miss Caldwell Miss Jay Time (>.ll 2-3 ENTRY OF aLLENS. MELBOURNE. Feb. 5. Air Urine, speaking at the Premiers Conference, said it would be unwise to restrict unduly the entry of aliens into the Commonwealth as it might lead to international complications. He sau it would be unwise to restrict uuduU the entry of aliens into the Commonwealth as it might lead to international complications. He said that i tlu» invasion continued oil its pic soil linsis Australia would be ninety-eight per cent British.

MKLBOI'RXE POLICE STRUM'COMMISSION’S REPORT. ATELBOURXE, February The report of tj’.e Police Commission which was presented to the Governmciit has not been made aval able loi publication. It is lea|n.ecL »«o«'CYcr, that the reinstatement ot the stlikei is not likely to he recommended aim that the Commission considered 10 men entirely in the wrong when they mutinied. . The report is expected to slate that the force before the mutiny was etticlllt and the action of the Chief IV lice Commissioner in dismissing men will he critic-sod