AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—-Per Press Association.) PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, Dec. 2. The Assembly passed the Arbitration Amendment Bill and also read a first time a bill prohibiting betting and wagering after sunset on any licensed racecourse or coursing ground. PHOTOGRAPHER MOBBED. ADELAIDE, Dec. 2. The first strike disorder occurred at Port Adelaide, where a press photographer, after taking a snap of a number of striking watersiders was mobbed and the camera and contents smashed. COPPER BOUNTY. CANBERRA, Dec. 2. After investigation into justification requests for payment of bounty on production of copper, the Australia Tariff Board report to the Minister of Customs recommends that the request should not be granted. It states the methods of mining and ore treatment in most copper mines of Australia are uneconomical and they have been abandoned in other parts of the world for methods more modern and capable of producing copper at a much lower cost than is possible under the methods employed in Australia.

PRICE OF FLOUR. SYDNEY, Dc-c. 2.... Correction—The price for export of flour is £l2 7s 6d.

N.S.W. INCREASED FARES. SYDNEY. Dec. 2. The State Cabinet has approved of increased railway and tramway (arcs, estimated to yield an additional eight hundred thousand sterling annually. Railway increases apply to the country as well as the metropolitan area. The increases amount to about seven per cent. The revenue for the balance of the current financial vear will benefit to the extent- of half a million sterling.