AUSTRALIAN NEWS
EARTH TREMOR
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 21
An earth tremor at Narromine, three hundred .miles westward of Sydney, alarmed residents. Small cracks appeared in the ground. The shake was recorded at Itivcrview Observatory 7.
S YDNEY FIRE'S,
SYDNEY, March 21
Fires in Sydney metropolitan area in 1929 totalled 4,145, a decrease of 331 on the previous year, which was a record. Expenditure on lire fighting organisations was nearly £500,000 per annum. DRESSED TIMBER. (Received this day at 8.30. a.rn.) CANBERRA, March 21. The House passed a bill relating to Hie amending duties on dressed timber. RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE. /Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 21. The Narkunda has been released from quarantine, and the ship berthed.
S.UAL UPON CO XT’ACTS R FLEAS ED
(Received this clay at 8.30. a.m.) PERTH, March 21. The last Smallpox contacts were released from quarantine.
TRAIN RUNNING RESUMED PERTH, March 21
The transcontinental railway resumed running through the area, recently Hooded. Station owners are trucking sheep to districts for luxuriant feed resulting from rains. A unique sight is flocks of wild fowl and seabirds on soaked lands bordering the reconstructed railway.
CHAMPION SCULLER DEAD. BRISBANE, Ala rch 21. Obituary.—AT. J. Slack, Australian Sculling champion in 1898, aetat sixty.
FEDERAL TRADE SUBSIDIES. CANBERRA, March 20. The Acting Minister of Customs, Hon Frank Fordo, stated to-day that the Federal Government are providing bounties on (lax fibre and linseed for a period of live years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1930, Page 6
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