AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PAN-PACIFIC PEACE PROJECT. ADELAIDE, June id. Among the motions agreed to at the Conference of the Australian in-ter-State Trades and Labour delegates was one its follows; •‘That realising that the Pacific will he the future cockpit of the world, this Conference recommended that arrangements he made to hold a pan-Paeiiie coiiferenece in Australia of all the industrial and political hotlics bordering the Pacific.”

At the conference of the Commonwealth Trades and Labour Councils, it ; was decided.'in order to finance the exj ponses of the Commonwealth Industrial - Disputes Committee, every member of the affiliated unions be levied one penny towards establishing a fund. A USTR A LI AN* SEAMEN. SYDNEY, June 13. It is reported that the Committee of .Management of the Federated Seamen's Union has decided to apply for registration as a trade union under the industrial laws of every State. It ; is said that the move is thwarting any ■ attempt on the part being taken with the object of a rival organisation to secure registration in the Federal Arbitration Court. Since the de-registration of the Seamen's Union, olfieials of the Union have been anxious to secure some method of safeguarding seamen, at present employed under award conditions. With this object in view action was taken by the Union immediately after the articles for the steamer Minium's crew wine signed at Melbourne. Messrs Walsh and O’Neill of (bo Victorian bra neb of the Union. presented the company with a request it should include in iho articles, a clause whereby it would he practically bound to conform with tin l wages and conditions provided in the cancelled award. The company refused to agree to the insertion of this clause, and the Minium is held up. Representatives of the shipping companies state that the Seamen’s Union, have no reason to suppose that shipowners intend to alter the conditions re wages ruling at present. Further efforts by the management . of the Commonwealth Line of Shins to se'tire crews for the .steamers Dilga and Eminaniiga by means of advertising have proved abortive. NEWSPAPER,s AND BROADCASTING. SYDNEY. Juno 15. The secretary’s report to lie presented at the annual meeting of the Country Press Association draw- alienlion to the disabilities under which . the coutllry newspapers .suffer in coniI petition with broadcast ing. In I lie past the newspaper office lots been the centre from which the rural population obtained its news and the proprietors spent money freely obtaining such news, but to-day in uio-t centres the local burlier is equipped with it receiving set and is able to post news practically without expense long before the proprietors paving urgent rates for the same information receive it by telegraph. Amongst the subjects discussed at the annual meeting will be the provision of a special broadcasting service for Ibe country press. Apropos of this the city newspapers and Hie public generally are keenly interested In the wireless trausinision of news between West; Australia and the Eastern States. Al the present time Trans-Continental telegrams take a long tittle to transmit as also do cables between I. lon and Sidney. GIRL WANTED HUSBAND. ADELAIDE. June 15. A voting woman, convicted oi olsUtining £SO worth of wearing apparel, including six frocks, under a lalse name, pleaded that she wanted a husband and thought “ those clothes would gel me one.” She. was given the benefit of the First Oll'eitders A< t. FATE OF YACHT’S CRF.W. . (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. June 10. A message has been received Imm ( Brisbane to the client the yacht. Endeavour, of Sydney, is reported to be wrecked on Wide Bay bar on t Quensland Coast, lhree well-known - Svdnev men were aboard. 1 bey lelt on 3rd. Jttne on a pleasure cruise. The Yacht was seen on Monday last attempting to i rcss the bar and appeared to Ik' in difficulties, but (Sintu* then nothing, lias been seen either ol j her or the crew, whose names are; Hubert Fitzgerald Evans, of Yuncluse; , Septimus Stephens, ol Balmain, and A. Bedford, of Neutral Bay. . GY.MIME TRAIN SMASH. , BRISBANE. June 10. , Henry Clark who was injured in the Gvmpie railway smash, has died. This makes ten deaths. A FATAL ACT. SYDNEY. June 10. At Orange, a youth named Arnold Morris, wat: king a bay kick a loutball said be could knock it higher with a gnu lie was carrying. He throw the hall into the air and holding the gun |,v the barrel struck it with the stock. The charge exploded and entered his breast, killing him instantaneously.