AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ALLEGED CONTEMPT.

(Australian Press Association)

SYDNEY, August .15.

. Application was made to the State Full Court to-day for an order nisi for a writ of attachment alleging contempt of Court against the proprietors of the Sydney Morning Herald, and the publisher, Herbert Didswell, on behalf of Messrs Jock Garden, Kavanagh, Ryan, and other members of the Trades Hall Disputes Committee, who- arc awaiting prosecution on a charge of conspiracy in, connection with the timber workers’, strike. '

Counsel for the applicants submitted that the Sydney Morning Herald editorials of July 29th and August 7th contained comments that were unfair and injurious, inferring that Garden and the others arrested were, responsible for the acts of “Basher Gangs,’’ and that their trials, in consequence, were likely to be prejudiced. The Oouit granted the order, which is returnable on Tuesday week.

CONTEMPT OF COURT

(Received this day at 10.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, August 16.

In the case in which a Labour daily newspaper was charged with contempt of court and judgment was reserved By the Full Court, the Court was satisfied that the respondents had been guilty of contempt, blit wished to consider what course it should take.

A HANDSOME GIFT

SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL : r 1 ; RESEARCH.

n: : • • SYDNEY, August 15. • F. Di McMaster, grazier of Cassilik, has offered £20,000 to the Council of Scientific Industrial Research. Prime Minister Bruce announced that the offer had been accepted. An animal laboratory would be erected in the grounds of Sydney University

VICTORIAN WOOL CLIP,

MELBOURNE, August 16,

The Victorian wool clip for .1928-29 season is estimated by the Government Statistician" at 124,369,3471b5, an increase of more than 30 per cent on the previous season.