AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & X.Z. Cable Association.] KING’S BIRTHDAY. CEREMONIES ON RENOWN. SYDNEY, June 5. A wireless message from 11.M.5. Renown states that in honour of the King’s birthday, a twenty-one-gun salute was fired at noon. The Royal Guard and the band paraded on the quarter deck when the Duke and Duchess of York and staff descended in order to observe the ceremony. The ship was gaily dressed from the masthead with flags. A number of the inhabitants of Mauritius rowed out and watched the Renown’s departure at midnight. A course is now set for the northward. The weather is delightful.

MONEY IN SHARKS. SYDNEY, May 27. Someone once said that the Chicago meat-packing factories used everything of the pig but its squeal. It can be said with equal truth of the shark utilisation factory at Carnarvon (West Australia) that it discards only the sea monster’s ability to bite. This factory is the first actually in commission here, though several projects are on foot to open similar establishments both in the eastern Australian States and in New Zealand. At Carnarvon, the factory is thriving. 'The liver of the shark is used for the extraction of an oil which is claimed to lie even hotter than Hie better known cod liver oil. The skins of the monsters are stripped and used for leather, later to be converted to encase milady’s feet and for lier handbags. The flesh is filleted, salted, sundried, and exported to satisfy the delicate tastes of rich Chinese. The fins arc also dried and exported, to appear later as that most-prized delicatessen of tlie celestial, shark-fin soup.

FISHING FATALITY. SYDNEY, June fi

While three men wore fishing in a boat at Brunswick Heads, tlie outgoing tide swept them over the liar, and waves upset the craft. Two men were unable to swin and after banging nil for some time to the upturned boat, they were drowned. 'The third man swain ashore, assisted by a rescue party.

AN UNDESIRABLE. SYDNEY, June fi

Alter being deported from Australia to New Zealand as an undesirable immigrant, Rudolph Bidwieli Borgfcldt, an American citizen, was refused permission io land there, and was returned by the T'limaroa once more. He was compelled to remain on the slop pending arrangements being made to return him to the United States. Borgfcldt, after originally leaving America stayed in New Zealand for some time before coming to Australia.