AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.».. CARLS ASSOCIATION. QUEENSLAND RADIO INCIDENT. MELBOURNE, August 21. With reference to the Queensland radio service the broadcasted message was broadcasted by an oversight and tiie official explanation will be broadcasted to-day stating tiie message was supplied by the newspaper "Daily Standard” and was received bv it from Its correspondent- in China. The message dealt with China’s internal troubles and gave the correspondent’s views of Britain’s attitude towards them. The Manager further explained that the message arrived late during tho noon transmitting session, and in order to prevent iistencrs-iii being kept waiting it was handled hastily, thereby escaping the usual rigid censorship. The Manager emphatically denies that the station is being used for broadcasting anti-British propaganda to which those responsible for broadcasting do not subscribe. EMPLOYEES PROTEST'. BRISBANE, August 20. Two thousand employees at Ipswich railway workshops downed tools. The action was taken to impress upon the Arbitration Court, and the Government. that they resented the Court's refusal to grant them five per cut increase in wages that they recently manded. It is not known at present -whether the men intend to stop out or if the move was just a demonstration of their feelings. SMUGGLING. SYDNEY, August 31. Brosshard. for smuggling diamonds on August 5, was fined £SOO to-day, or in default a year’s imprisonment. I’lic charge was that he smuggled £ 17.000 worth of jewellery into the Commonwealth. Brosshard, who arrived in Australia as a traveller for n firm of diamond inert bants in J’aris, paid duty on some cheap jewellery on arrival, but when seen later ill his hotel lie admitted that lie had smuggled valuable jewellery hy sewing it in his clothes. In a statement, he blamed a Customs officer, and the latter was suspended, but later was reinstated. The Crown alleged Brosshard is a. member of a gang of international smugglers, wild defeated the customs in India. Japan, and Shanghai and under tho Act. the jewellery is forfeited to the Government.