AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 3

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. ADELAIDE. April 3. At the annual conference of the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australia, tile New Zealand Association cuinplameU that its certificates were not recognised by railways, shipping companies, and hotels i:i Ausralin, though Australian certificates were recognised by those public facilities in the Dominion. Reciprocity in the matter was requested. A motion was carried to provide that, in the event of failure lo obtain recognition of New Zealand certificates by transport authorities, the matter .should be left to the executive committee. Tim annual report showed that the membership ol the Association "as 15,816. Assets totalled £362,374, and £ll 257 was paid in benefits. STORMY SCENES. SYDN EY, April 4. The Labour conteronee resulted in many stormy passages with uproar between the rival tactions. The whole of Saturday's session was taken up in testing the credentials of certain delegates, and voting on local administrative mutters in which the executive of the Australian Labour Party was twice defeated by a section seeking to depose them. Seeing that the executive’s supporters were in the minority, the president Mr McGrath, adjourned the conference until .Monday, amid an indescribable uproar. AY IN FOR ANTI-REDS. SYDNEY, April 5. At the Labour conference the red jinti-executive element on a motion that members of Parliament not he allowed to hold seats on the executive of the Australian Labour Party. As Mr. McGratli is a member of the Legislative Council, he was deposed from tho presidency of the party and other members who are also members' of the Upper House are compelled to resign from the executive. MURDER CHARGE. MELBOURNE, April 0. In connection with the death of Mrs Laws. at Oakb-igb. cabled goth. March, Mary Ethel Hudson, nurse, married, was charged with the murder. The hotly was found in a sitting posture against a tree, death having followed a certain operation. RETURNED SOLDIERS PROTEST. PERTH. April 3. TUp Minister of Education, Mr Drew, refused a request that Returned soldiers be permitted to address school children in the State schools on Auzac. Day. In. doing so, he said lie had been informed by a leading ecclesiastic that there existed in Perth, a society which, in order to emphasise its protests against war, desired to exhibit at the State schools on Anzae Day war-worn and broken soldiers, who would, in themselves. and by speeches furnish arguments against war in any circumstances.