AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

1 Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] QUEENSLAND FLOODS. BEISBVNE. Jan. 25. Owing to the posibility of Hood in Hie Brisbane river, the port ant hori--1 ics have issued a warning, oiml huv>' advised all shipping as a precaut binary measure, to move out into Morcten May.

Severn) .steamers have vacated I heir berths at Die wharves. With a. partial restoration of communications, graphic stories of (lie Hoods are reported in the Queensland coastal men. At Fossilorookt on tho Lynd River only two buildings, a school and police station are left standing. A dozen families were left without shelter mid only the clothes they stood in. One man lost four hundred goats. Since the fifteenth of January fifteen indies of ram has fallen. Bain is still falling at Brisbane. The water mains supplying Ipswich have broken, and tho town is drawing its supplies from another reservoir, which, however, holds only two days’ supply. An earth tremor is reported from Cairns.

federal.labour party. SYDNEY, Jan. 25.

Speaking to-day, Mr Charlton denied that he had any intention of resigning from tho leadership of tho Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, and he said that tho reports circulated in this connection were not true.

FAMILY ENDOWMENT PLAN

SYDNEY, January 25.

At tho close of the N.S.W. State Cabinet’s mooting to-day, tbe Premier, Mr Lang, announced that it had been decided to recommend to the Labour Party Caucus the introduction of a family endowment scheme providing for tlic payment to mothers of six shillings weekly for each child up to tho ago of fourteen years, and also for each dependent incapable of earning a living. It is stipulated, however, that there shall ho a. wage or salary limit of £4OO per annum, and that the total amount to he paid to a worker in wages and to bis wife in allowances for children shall not exceed that amount.