AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] WAI.SII CASE NOT SETTLED. SYDNEY, March 9. A special meeting of the Sydney branch of the Seamen’s Union decided to suspend Raeburn on the ground of his alleged neglect of duty and wilful disobedience of instiruetions of mass meetings of memlters. No finality was neat-lied in the ease of Walsh. Neither attended the meeting. Although .Tohannsen was expelled by the Federal Executive ho dominated the meeting. He said the committee which had expelled him was an informal one. no quorum being present. He intended to carry on as usual. CHURCH SITE FOR TOWN HALL SYDNEY, March 9. Tho .scheme for the securing of the site of Saint. Andrew’s Cathedral in connection with the extension of the Town Hall and railway purposes has Leon again revived. Mr Lang (Premier) has offered the Cathedral authorities a new site on Church Hill and half a million sterling for the erection of a new cathedral. The church authorities who refused the previous oiler are considering the matter.

TESTING TUBERCULOSIS SERUM SYDNEY, March 9.

The Tubercular Association has established a clinic for testing Doctor Small Page's new serum on a large scale. Two hundred cases are dealt wiili weekly, the terms of treatment being fixed at a, low scale.