AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1928, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(United Press Association.—By Electric • Telegraph.—Copyright.) AU'QUAY IDENTIFIED. SYDNEY, April (i. A Salvation Army officer from New Zealand has definitely established tho identity of George Thomas AfcQuay, the New Zealand soldier who has been lor the past eleven years an inmate of the Calkin Park Mental Hospital. McQuay was originally picked up in London, wandering aimlessly, and dressed in “ civics,” with an Australian military hat. He was unable to give any account of himself, beyond the .statement that he was an .Australian soldier.

.MISSING HR i DKGROOAI. SYDNEY, April (5. Air H. Loder, a West Australian, who disappeared on .March Kith from a hotel in Sydney, where lie was staying with his bride on a honeymoon visit, was found yesterday at Kiama. He was cold and hungry. He was suffering from loss of memory. lie was unable to explain what happened, but apparently ho had walked all the way from the city. .MARINE COOKS' GRIEVANCE.

SYDNEY. April <>

Shipping circles fear that the cooks’ trouble, which at present only affects the Huddart Parker Coy’s ships, may extend. It is rumoured that the Union intends to insist on the employment of ail extra man in the galley of every inter-State collier. In such an event, it is believed that the owners will lay the ships up, rather than accede to the demand. The Huddart Parker steamers Zealandia and C'orio, on which the cooks struck, are tied up, and are off the Tasmanian run.

RAIN IN SYDNEY. (Received this day at B.GO a.m A SYDNEY, April 7

There was rain throughout the night, especially heavy in the early morning which makes ihe outlook for the races and holiday dubious, llandwick course is heavy.