AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Australian Press Association.) EXPLANATORY MESSAGE. SYDNEY, August 20. In explanation of the Honolulu women’s storm message Mrs Robertson cabled to the “Sun” what purported to be a report of an indictment by Dr Mildred Stanley, a New Zealand delegate, at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, of modern flapper moral standards by Dr Stanley. It was said she likened so-called flappers to street women, declared they suffered no qualms of conscience over their conduct. Dr Stanley also sugegsted that a majority of girls employed in business houses were guilty of dubious conduct. The publication of the mesage in Sydney aroused a storm of protest and cabled inquiries to Honolulu produced to-day’s message.

PAPUAN REPORTS. SYDNEY, August 20

Sir Herbert Murray, Lieutenant-Gov-ernor of Papua, lias just arrived here. He deprecates the alarmist reports of massacres and tribal risings in New Guinea and declares that residents regard these reports as a joke. Nevertheless they do the country a lot of damage. One affray cost nine lives, where the report stated five hundred were dead, which was a pure fabrication. JAPANESE ORE RIGHTS. FREMANTLE, August 20. An influential group of Japanese capitalists lias secured rights from the Commonwealth Government to exploit iron ore deposits at Yainpai Sound, in Western Australia and a party of Japanese has just completed a fortnight’s inspection there. Safe accommodation for ships has been found 1,1 Sound Asano. The organisation expects to spend two millions sterling in Japan treating ore from Yanipi, which is very rich, and capable of yielding a million tons annually, alter about the third year. OBITUARY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 29. Obituary—Thomas Win. Heney, actat sixty-four, formerly editor of the Sydney “Morning Herald,” and later the “Daily Telegraph.” NO TRACE OF LOST MEN. SYDNEY, Aug. 20. There is no trace of the missing men lost on Alt. Ivosctisko and hope is abandoned, as the country whereto the latest traces led is wild. It is believed they fell into a crevasse. FIRE DAMAGE. SYDNEY. Aug. 20. A fire at the wireless radio electrical stores in Pitt and Goulburn Streets. City, caused damaged estimated at fifteen thousand.