AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL PREMIER

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SYDNEY, Oct. 19

The Prime Minister, passing through Sydney from an election tour of Queensland, commented adversely on the competition between the six Australian States and the Federal Government for overseas loan money, and the tendency of State Governments' to set up separate social departments for the relief of the very people for whom the Commonwealth was catering. He recommended the Federal Government’s insurance scheme should he adopted as the basis of social effort, with general co-ordination in regard to workmen’s compensation, child endowment and widow’s pensions. He said no separate State could unduly hamper its industries by the cost of such social legislation.

BURGLAR’S ATTACK

SYDNEY, Oct. 18

Ainsley Cox, of Auburn, a Sydney suburb, a bookmaker, was confronted by a burglar early this morning. The thief was apparently aware that Cox had a large sum of money in his house after yesterday’s pony races. Cox was struck with a slingshot and then with an electric torch. The thief decamped, however, without finding any money

THE AURORA

A BRILLIANT DISPLAY

(Received this day at 11 a.m.)

SYDNEY, October 19

A brilliant display of Aurora Australia was observed from the south coast last night.

BOXING SWINDLE. (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 19. There is a sensation in boxing circles over the American Van Dreeden’s statement relative to a match-against an Englishman, Kid Socks, last Saturday, which the referee declared no contest, he being dissatisfied with the genuineness of the American’s performance. The latter 1 , in an affidavit confesed that he agreed to lose the fight in the fifth round and that he was to receive a percentage of the winnings which a third person, whom lm named, expected to gain by backing the Englishman. -rVan Dreeden’s con tract with the Stadium is being terminated and his passage secured by the Niagara for America from Sydney.

A FLY DELAYED. SYDNEY;-' Oct. 19. The departure of, . ‘/The Spirit of Australia’’ for England lias been postponed. A second man will be carried to enable longer daily flights, and so achieve the end desired, to beat Hinkler’s time from England to Australia.