AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1926, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SCIENCE IN INDUSTRY. SYDNEY, March' 23. Reporting to the Federal Premier, Air Bruce, on the encouragement of industrial science, Sir Frank Heath, the Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London, recommends that the present Australian Common wealth Institute of Science and Industry he reconstituted at a cost in the first year of £40,000; in tlie second year of £50,000 and ultimately of £IOO,OOO. He says that less Scientific work has been done in Australian dairying than in any other branch of agriculture. He urges tho necessity for giving attention to better and more cheaply produced wool. He declares that Australia should ho not only self-supporting in timber, but a large exporter. He favours an institute to be established under special scientific officers in the agriculture section, attached to which there should in the first instance, lie a Dairy Research Institute, and also food, forestry. fuels, and fisheries sections, and later such other sections as are deemed necessary. ROTARY CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, Alarcli 23. The first official Rotary Conference here has commenced. Before the conference, the delegates numbering between three hundred and four hundred including British, American, and New Zealanders, were officially welcomed at the Town Hall by the Lord Mayor. Air Bruce, Federal Premier, opened the conference. He said Rotary liad an international aspect. Nothing could better foster the great need between the nations at the present time of mutual knowledge, mutual understanding and mutual respect than the great organisation of Rotarv.

AUSTRALI AN MURDERS. SYDNEY, March 24. Walter Arthur Harney has been committed for trial at Wiloannia on a charge of murdering William Oliver, an aged rabbiter, whose remains, wit'll the flesh which was removed from the bones ami the latter disjointed, were found buried in a rabbit warren near the place where Oliver and Harney camped. Harney was arrested when attempting to dispose of Oliver’s property. '

BRISBANE, March 24. At Longreach, after a quarrel, Stanley Weight shot dead Mrs Elizabeth Prist, a divorcee who was employed as an hotel cook and then shot himself dead. The two liad been keeping eompany. At Tallyman, George Mitchell was found in his bed at his home with a, bullet wound in his head. Before dying he stated that an unknown man fired two shots at him. Later a young man, A. H. Peters, was remanded on a charge of murdering Mitchell. dengue fever. SYDNEY, March 24. Dengue fever is prevalent throughout the State and is severely affecting the schools attendance, which, in many plates, has dropped to twenty-five per cent. The teaching staffs are also depleted much below the average strength.