AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian Press Association.)

CO.M.MONWEALTII STEAMERS

CANBERRA. April 17

It was announced here lu-dny that no statement regarding the disposal of the Commonwealth line of Mounters will he made till next Tuesday.

COOKS STRIKE. SYDNEY. Ao'il 17. The shipowners approached the Arbitration Court to-day. asking that summonses he issued requiring ihc officials of the Marine Cooks’ Union of Svtlnoy and Melbourne to appeal before the Court on Friday next. The owners’ application asks lor the determination of the awnrd and tho insertions of the clause prohibiting the members of the Cooks’ Union taking part, and also for the suspension ol the award if the members of the .Marino Cooks’ Union join any strike.

SOLDIERS' PENSIONS

(Received this day at If). 10 a.m.) SYDNEY. April IS.

The Conunis-sionei' on the Repatriation Annual Report states the number of soldiers’ pensions were increased from A!).8I7 in BUD to 117.1(58 in 102.. The reasons for tb'e'nicrease were the absence of time limit oil applications fra- pensions, and the acceptance of pensions responsibility in respect to wives and children of incapacitated soldiers irrespective of when marriage takes place or children horn. federal- school ok public HEALTH. A PROFESSOR’S EVIDENCE. SYDNEY. April IS. Professor Welsh. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Sydney Univclrsi'tv, giving evidence i eel arc the Federal Public Works Committee in regard to the proposed establishment of a Federal School of Public Health in the University, said: I»y the expenditure of a few million sterling

upon an intensive campaign in popularising the necessary means of prevention. nearly all inleetions diseases could he eliminated within a generation.

A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT. SYDNEY. April IS

Cecil Wright, describing himself ns a journalist, was charged at Cnulburn with being it prohibited immigrant, having boon convicted in New Zealand. He was sentenced to six mouths’ pending deportation to Now Zealand.

GO V E!! N M ENT CNP EI ! T C 111 !ET> SYDNEY. April IS.

Mr Bruce states bis Gor.-rniin-iif K not perturbed by the threat of the seamen on the marine transport group to boycott Commonwealth vessel? when sold. He add- Hie new owners would lie obliged to ttnd'-i-la ki- nod maintain an equivalent serein i,. , ’■■

provided by the Conunonweallb Line

CHILD’S BODY FOUND. MELBOURNE-. April 18. ’Pile I tody of Gladys Wil-mi. aged Iff. was found at the bottom of a well at her home at Yosp.or, near Warraugid. The child was clad in a nightgown and it is alleged sin- was taken out of bed at midnight bv an adidt and thrown into the well and drowned. Tho child’s mother lias been removed to a hospital for observation. Several years ago another ol Mrs Wilson’s children was drowned in the same well.

SECOND TRIAL OPENS. -MELBOURNE, April 18. The second trial opened in Alel-b-Hirne of tlie Omoi par-all Ronald Griggs, for the murder of his xvife. Croxvds were again enable to obtain

admission. ENGINEERS’ UNION RESOLUTION. ADELAIDE. April 18. Tin- Engineers’ Union resolved lliat

no excessive or systematic ox-ertimo yball .e, w orked without tin- sanction of tin- unions concerned during the

present trade depression