AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

tOBTBALIAN AND N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION RKPIXEDO’S FLIGHT. MELBOURNE, May The Italian Consul has received a message from the Italian Consul at Batavia, stating that AY ing Commander the Marchise Depinedo, who is living from Rome, will fly from Timor Island to Broome to-morrow, alining during the afternoon. 'l'he aviation do par I men I is arranging a. welcome. FILCHING THE PARKS. PROTESTS IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY. May IT A lew years ago Hyde Park, in the heart of the city, was one of the beauty

spots ill' Sydney. With its great stretches of velvety lawns, its trees and walks, its delightful lluwer beds, it was to the public wiiaf an oasis is to tin? man who plunges into flic desori, a delightfully fertile spot in the wilderness i;f bricks and mortar. Something; of its original beauty it still retains, Inil llm delights of its form, and colour bad to be sacrificed for the exigencies of flic City Railway, and to-day great unsightly mounds right down the centre of the park constitute the track ol the proposed underground railway. \ow, to crown this disfigurement, there is the suggestion ol the I.abour caucas of the City Council that Hyde Park would be an admirable site for the proposed new .Municipal Library. Ihe proposal has evoked the adverse criticism of those wlto see the open, spares gradually being filched from the public, but the Labour Party in the City Connicl to-day is omnipotent, and nobody knows what it will do next. It is at the expense of the city ratepayers that the free Municipal Library, one of the finest libraries of its kind in the world, is being maintained, but there are not a lew who a] ready think it is as unfair burden, without putting up a new costly pile in Hyde Park, seeing that it is patronised almost wholly by people living outside the city proper, and is, properly speaking, a State library. in which one can borrow all the latest fiction and other works lor nothing. The L'ublie Library and the -Mitchell Library are distinct institutions. L.\DERG RADS AXI) HOY SCOUTS. SYDNEY. May '-'O.

In connection with Scout Week, an imposing procession ol four thousand scouts took place through the streets and it drew dense crowds. Previously the ’Varsity undergraduates had scheduled a procession, alter their rollicking demonstration at the Town Hall. Six emblazoned undergraduates rode to the Town Hall, ready to head the procession, but under police advice their undertaking was abandoned in an organised form, though a straggling march with thinned ranks was carried out.