AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BUSH FIRES. (Australian Press Association) RRINILYNE. December 9. Fierce hush fires over Alount Orilloy have taken heavy toll of agriculture and mountain country Five banana 1 a mis have been burnt out. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds. Several dairy farms in the path of the flames were menaced but an organised force .of, lire fighters are doing their utmost to divert the fire.

£i;000,000 FOR UNEMPLOYED. SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Hon J. 11. Seallin, the Prime Minister, informed a gathering of the State Premiers to-day that the Commonwealth Government is making available the sum of one million pounds sterling to the States for relief works for the unemployed. The only condition attaching to this offer is that it should be spent without delay. MOTORISTS BARRED BY POLICE. FROM PARKING IN MAIN STREETS. SYDNEY, Dec. 9. • Owing to the severe congestion of Sydney’s narrow streets, the Police Department, from to-day, has prohibited car-parking in the chief thoroughfares. This is causing the greatest dismay among the motorists, scores of whom offended to-day. They were all duly “hooked” by the police. The people who do not own cars, however, chuckled at the motorists’ discomfiture.