AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

iustraliau Press Assn.—United Service VIEWS OF RELIGION. SYDNEY, Sept. G. “Our world to-day is full of gloom religions. They are erecting a barrier between men and God,” declared Father Lockington, head of tho Riverview College, Sydney, when speaking at a great gathering in the City Town Hall at the Eucharistic Congress festival. He added:—“As a result of these gloom religions millions of ordinary people are wandering in doubt or in the valley of despair, going down in a morass of materialism. Most people look upon religion as a depressing tiling and perverter of human life and upon Ministers as killjoys. This conception of religion is very prevalent and from the point of view of the man in tho street is quite right. The position, therefore must he faced. Men died in millions some time ago in tho cause of liberty, yet von have less of it to-day than ever.”

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EXPENSES. CANBERRA, Sept. 6. The Alinister of Trade and Customs announces £789,187 was paid last year bv the Federal Government in countries for the support of Australian industries. .\lnmst two thirds was paid to winemakers, while iron and steel interests received £243,628.

OBITUARY. HOBART, Sept. 6. Obituary.—Joseph Hatch, aged nine-ty-one. He at one time leased from the Tasmanian Government, MaeQuarrie Island for the exploitation of penguin rookeries and seal fisheries. He was formerly Mayor of Invercargill and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives.