AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

A SCHEME DROPPED. BRISBANE, November 14. The Premier states the proposed child endowment scheme is an economic impossibility. Therefore the Government has decided to abandon it.

QUEENSLAND SPEAKER DEAD. BRISBANE, November 11. All political, party leaders pay a tribute to the services of Charles -McDonald, late Speaker of the Quecslaiid House of Representatives. Flags aro flying half mast.

N.S.W. CORN SACKS DEAL. SYDNEY, Nov. 10. The leport of the Royal Commissioner in the corn sacks case, in which the Government purchased sacks for wheat farmers’ use, finds no evidence of misconduct cr wrong-doing on the part of any person in count*:tion with the contract. 'l'ho commissioner is satisfied that Hon Mr Dunn acted reasonably in what he did. 'I here might be a difference of opinion as to whether the Minister acted wisely, hut, in the Commissioner's opinion, lie did act wisely.

NEWCASTLE! SENSATION. RACING CAR RUNS INTO CROWD. SYDNEY, November 13. During a motor speedway contest, at Newcastle, a ear left, the track and charged among the spectators at a speed of seventy miles an hour. One man, Charles Syred, was killed, and twenty-five were injured, some seriouslv.

A densely packed crowd was watching when the speedway race accident happened. After leaving the track the ear crashed through the fence and tho crowd, wildly stampeding, got out of control, a number receiving injuries in (lie mad crush and others wore injured by the ear which cut a wide swathe among the people, nine of whom were hospitalled. Many received minor in-

juries. The aceidenl was due to a fault in

the steering gear. The driver and mechanic escaped in