AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.

FEDERAL REVENUE

(Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY. April 3

Federal Customs receipts for the nine months were:— (,‘.‘12,384,000, 0904,000 below a year ago ami Cl ,215,000 less than the estimate. Postal revenue was £9,0i1.000, an increase of £449,000, hut a quarter .of a million below the estimate.

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. SYDNEY, April ft.

The Traffic Advisory Committee appointed by the State Government to investigate traffic problems recommends the establishment of a Ministry of Transport, fully empowered to deal with conditions at present contributing to congestion in the city streets. So far as Sydney is concerned it is suggested that surface trains should continue until the underground railway system is completed. The trial of double decker trains and buses and coordination of these services is advocated in tiie interests of economy ol street space and improved transportation lor the public. Direct State roads for fast motor traffic are also suggested. SURGEON’S CONGRESS. CANBERRA. April 3.

The Australian Surgeons Congress adopted a series of resolutions dealing with public hospitals, including the following finding: “ L’atients who are not in a position to pay anything towards the cost of their hospital maintenance and treatment should have first claim on public hospitals. Patients able to pay. either in whole or in part, should not he excluded from the facilities obtainable in properly equipped modern hospitals. To meet the needs of these, the community hospital system, under which all ■ classes of patients are received, 11011-paying, intermediate and paying, is an ideal to be aimed at and should replace, the present unsatisfactory system of small private hospitals. AN EXPLORATION PARTY. SYDNEY, April ;i. Donald McKay, a prominent New South Wales grazier shortly leads an exploration party through Arnhcim Land in Northern Australia. Other members arc: Doctor Basedow (geologist and surveyor), Walter Scully (cinomatogrnphist) and Lovell, a South Australian. McKay says the object is to ascertain if the country is suitable for tropical agriculture. The party starts to-day for Darwin and the journey is expected to extend over three months. ROYAL SHOW AWARDS. SYDNEY, April 3. New Zealand successes at the Royal Show—Shorthorn open class, hull for years, J. Scrymgeour’s King of the Flowers secured third prize. Aberdeen Angus cow three years. H. Monro Celandine of Glenelg. first and champion.