AUSTRALIAN -NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1926, Page 3

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1 Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT. SYDNEY, July 1. Tiie State Cabinet after considering tho Workers’ Compensation Act decided at the present juncture there should ho no State monopoly on insurance. INQUEST ON. DETECTIVES. PERTH, July 1.

At the inquest in connection with the deaths of Detectives Walsh and Pitman, Detective-Sergeant Manning gave evidence that Evan Clarke, cue of those wanted on a charge of murder made two statements. The second whereof resulted in Cauiter’s arrest and on the strength of the other statement lie and other detectives found near the Boulder Racecourse some earth and congealed blood which Clarke said iiad been put there hv Cimlter. after it hud been recovered from the bush .in bis (Clarke’s) ear. Manning said about fifty paces from the gold treating plant where it is alleged the Detectives were killed, was the spot wherefrom some earth had been removed. The inquest was adjourned.

AP PLICA TI ONS REF USED. SYDNEY, July 1. The Industrial Registrar refused the application of the Coastal Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union and the New South Wales branch of the Seamen’s Union of Australia for registration as industrial unions under the Arbitration Act. The registration of the Coastal Union is opposed by the Seamen’s Union. The latter’s application is . opposed hy the Coastal Union, Coastal Owners’ Association and InterState Steamship Owners’ Association. In refusing the Coastal Union’s application, the Registrar said the evidence established control over the union by the employers. Thus the Union was not genuinely representative of the employees. After considering the eonduet of the Seamen’s Union since 1924, the Registrar said he felt the Union did not desire to regulate the conditions of employment by the means provided in the Industrial Arbitration Act and would nof, if registered, he a bona fide industrial union.