AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] VOLUNTEER. UNION TO BE FORMED SYDNEY, A larch 25. At the Shipping Conference, the representatives of the Transport Group admitted that an agreement was signed by the represent! ttives of the Group at .Melbourne last year that action by the seamen calculated to interfere with the coastal services would not In encouraged, and the Transport Group, ol which the Seamen's Union was a member, also promised to compel the •Seamen’s Union to carry out its agreement. hut the representatives stated that 1 hoy had not been advised Tnim Melbourne that ihe agreement had been signed.

The companies now state that they have decided to carry on with volunteer labour until new Union has been formed io provide the coastal steamers with crews independent ol the Seamen’s, Union.

ABORTION tragedy. MELBOURNE, March 25,

I lie body ol a middle-aged woman, lully dressed, was found near a road at Dakleigb early this morning, in a sitting posture against a tree. There were wheel marks nearby. An examination revealed that her death had followed a certain operation, ami that her body hail been hurriedly dressed and taken in a vehicle to the spot where it was found.

So far there is no clue to the perpe Ira tors or to the woman’s identity.