AUSTRALIAN NEWS
ISLAND LIFE.
(Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 13. • At the official inquiry into the Palm Island tragedy, the Magistrate declared the evidence disclosed considerable bickering among the officials in charge of the native compound. Currie had assaulted Dr Patterson during one of these .altercations, but intoxicating liquor was the real root of the trouble. WORDS OF WISDOM. MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. Judge Beeby in the Arbitration Court issued a warning that in view of the fall in prices for wool and other primary produce, a genieral reconstruction in Australia was inevitable. The Unions riiust realise that lower wages are alniost certain, and he suggested smaller profits would probably follow. Everything pointed to the. fact that the present depression was not temporary, but the result of post-war inflation.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY
MELBOURNE, Feb. 12
Another man has been arrested in connection with the alleged coining organisation. The police found i suit case in the Maribyriiong river containing ; a .number of, counterfeit florins. FEDERAL POLITICS. CANBERRA, Feb. 13. Prime Minister Scullin may go tf Geneva for the opening of the League Assembly in September, when en route to the Imperial Conference. The date,of departure has not been fixed. It depends when the referendum will be taken on the question of extending the Federal Government’s powers in relation to industrial matters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1930, Page 5
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