AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

. BIG FORGERIES. BY BANK MANAGERS. ] ‘ (Australian’‘Press Association) •’J SYDNEY, Oct. 30. Convicted of forgery, involving seven thousand sterling, two branch managers of the Commercial Banking Coy., Sydney, named Herbert Lloyd, aged 59 years, and Ivo Longley, aged 43,years, were each sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. TO THE RESCUE. • SYDNEY, Oct. 30. Sir Robert Gibson," Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, announces that an additional four million sterling is to be shipped to the Bank of England, where it can be usefully employed, a.s well as helping to relieve tht shortage,.of London credit., INDUSTRIAL-COMMISSION. _ , (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 31. In less than fifteen minutes the Legislative Assembly passed a hill to suspend the powers of the industrial Commission to declare a living wage lor adult male and female employees, until Parliament makes furtner provision on that behalf. The bill was taken through all stages without opposition. INFANT’S BODY. SYDNEY, October 31. What appears to have been a case of murder was reported to the police. In a suitcase handed to the matron of the Central Methodist Mission was found j the body of a newly-born female infant. A silk cord had been knotted round the neck. Death was due to suffocation. !