AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BY TELKOKAI-TI —I-F.R I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION.]

SYDNEY’S HEALTH LAWS

SYDNEY. I-Vh. IS. The City Health Authorities intend stringently to tighten up the regulations controlling the restaurants and hairdressers’ shops. Among the provisions is one that the use of chipped pottery, glassware and other utensils tHa I cannot he kept scrupulously clean is lorbithb-n. There is also forbidden Ihe use of fin-'ers in portioning out find. 1 lie use of a spoon. fork, or other form of hullo !>oiiiis insislo‘l upon. Kitchen employees must wear washable clothes.

The hairdressers' regulations are framed on .* '" • '.can lines. Any poison suffering f v ' skin eruption is hatred from tonsorial attention. ANOTHER GAP TRAGEDY. v SYDNEY. Fob. 18. Another tragedy has occurred at I he Gap. Early this lnroning. a commercial traveller. H. Smith, aged about 27, and an unidentified woman, aged 21. hurled themselves over the dills, and fell on the rocks about, one hundred feet down. Both bodies were badly mutilated. The couple were last seen alive at midnight walking arm in arm in the vicinity of The Gap, hut the tragedy was not discovered until this morning, when a fisherman, on looking over the dill’s saw the bodies. Several letters wore found on both of the victims, and they arc being investigated by the police, but the motive is so far unexplained. |)E GAIIhS REMANDED. .MELBOURNE, Fob. 18. De Claris was again remanded till March 6th. to enable certain documents to be sent Irom New Zealand. TENDERS FOR CRUISERS. SYDNEY, February 19. The Minister of Defence has announced that two Australian tenders, one from Cockatoo Island and the other from Walsh Island, have been received by the Federal Ministry for the construction of one ol the two ten thousand ton cruisers for the Australian Xavv. A number of British linns also tendered for the i■Destruction of either one or two cruisers in Britain. One tender offered to build on in Britain and one in Australia. It is at present too early to make a comparison between the Anstralian and British tender.

A PECULIAR AFFAIR. SYDNEY February IS. Enquirie; are being made by Federal authorities regarding certain liappenii-. :; at Merewether. At a late hour on Sunday night the news agent at Merewether was called out of bod and asked by a foreign woman questions regarding the depth of water off Merewether beach, and whether it would he possible to bring a steamer close in. He replied that lie knew nothing about such matters, and the woman departed. On Tuesday morning the signal master at Newcastle sighted the Norwegian steamer Have, coming up from the •south when she suddenly turned r.s if to go into Merewether beach. Fearing the ship had mistaken the entrance to Newcastle harbour, the signal master sig-nalled—‘-Stand off. you arc in danger - ’. The vessel gave no indication of having seen the signls but she steamed up the Coast till opposite Nobby's. Thinking possibly that the Have, being a foreign ship would not understand the signals, a | i 1 1: t vessel went out to meet her. I,ut when within half a mile of the vessel. the Hftvo, still without acknowledging the signals went full steam ahead, and was soon lost to sight up the coast. The Federal Department views the happenings as something requiring the fullest investigation. It is submitted that a steamer laden with wheat foi Japan as the Havo was. could not afford to waste time in an inspection of the coastline, while the refusal to acknowledge the signals cannot he regarded without apprehension.