AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

j Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] TRAFFIC SMASHES. MELBOURNE, June 27. Two serious accidents, luckily not- attended by any loss of life, occurred cn Saturday evening. At Carlton no electric tramear crashed into a. stationary tram. There were twenty-se-ven people injured. In both cases the vehicles, which wore football specials, were heavily laden with passengers. N'.S.AV. POLICY. SYDNEY, June 27. The Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly points out that the Government of New South AY ales, under the present law, has no power to undertake general insurance. He says that such g ij action would be purely illegal, and that the Government is in a position to repudiate any policy if it chose to do so. He declared that confusion and alarm had been created by the Gov-* ernment’s action throughout the country. Tt was appalling. Everywhere the matter was being discussed. The primary producers generally were reduced to' a position of 'despair by Ibis and other Government burdens. The North Coast Sawmtilers’. Associatoin have decided, as the result of the new Act thfit all the agreements with the timber .suppliers and the employees shall be terminated on AA’ednesdny. Hundreds of timber getters and mill employees will be idled.