AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Bv Telegraph—Per Press Association. CAPTURE OF MASSACRE CHIEF. SYDNEY, Dec. 5. Advices from Tulagi state Noln, supposed to lie the principal chief concerned in the massacre, was captured with a small party of followers. SOUTH AUSTRALIA GOVERNOR. ADELAIDE, Dee. 5. The Governor, Sir Tom Bridges, whose term of office expires to-morrow intends visiting Xew Zealand before returning to England. The Chief Justice. Sir George Murray, will act until a .successor is appointed.

CABLE SERVICES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CANBERRA, Dee. ti. Tu the House of Representatives Mr Bruce, referring to the position of the cable services since Hie development of beam wireless, said the position was becoming acute and serious and would he more so. should beam advance in the next twelve months at the rate it had in the past. Two cables were vitally necessary for defence purposes and as an adjunct to communication. As the matter was so serious if was {imposed to appoint a committee of representatives of all the Governments concerned to meet in Britain and go into the question. What, effect the development of beam would have in the Commonwealth interest in the Pacific Cable Coy. it was impossible to say.

LABOR SAVING DEVICES. SYDNEY, Dee. ft. Before' the Child Endowment Commission, evidence was given hv representatives of the Traders and Labour Council that the predominant feeling among young men and women was tc avoid marriage, because the wages received made it impossible to provide a home and maintain, the same standard of comfort as enjoyed while single. Distances were cited to show how modern machinery was increasing production and replacing men.

It was stated that oxyeuler displaced three to ten boilermakers and their mates. The Jacques pinching table could do the work of ten men. The spray-painting machine for molorhodies displaced seventy-six painters. The steam shovel tended hv twelve men did the work of two hundred men. Every pneumatic tool displaced six to twelve men.