AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SOBEY ENTERS HOSPITAL

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

SYDNEY;

Aug. 26

The British Rugbyite Sobev, has entered a hospital for an operation to his knee. Tire injury was caused in New Zealand. AUSTRALIA’S NEED. ADELAIDE, Aug. 26, Sir Otto Niemeyer, in a speech here, , said the resolutions at Melbourne Premiers’ Conference, which had been received satisfactorily in London, were merely a scaffolding upon which to build. In future the Governments of Australia must balance their budgets and keep them balanced. It was essential that all the maturing debts be met regular? ]y. He emphasised that if the rates of interest to Australia were to be decreased gradually, it could only be done bv .limiting. all other demands for money and arranging the Budgets so that they did not unduly encroach on private industry.. The basis had to be on the side of a reduction of expenditure, rather than increased taxation. Care would have to be exercised not to . over-provide public utilities, giving ; .ypininerce and industry more than they really needed.

SIR OTTO NIEMEYER

MELBOURNE, Aug. 26

Tt is anon need that Sir Otto Niemeyer next visits Queensland, and departs for London in three weeks time.

LABOUR SUGGESTIONS

SYDNEY

Aug. 26,

Industrial, and political wings of the New South Wales Labour Movement Conference decided to-night to recommend that Federal Laboiu merri-. bers of Parliament should repudiate the financial agreement reached at the recent Premiers’ Conference at Melbourne, and that any member who refuses to obey would he expelled from the party as an “enemy of the workink classes.”

It was recommended that Government should cancel war debts and declare a five years’ moratorium on interest payable on overseas Commonwealth loans; that'there should be a mobilisation of credit to provide work and sustenance for unemployed.

Another decision was that the award rates of pay should be maintained regardless of the financial situation. These recommendations are to be submitted to Labour organisations' throughout Australia ;i for approval and ratification.

QUEENSLAND POLJ'ITOS

BRISBANE, Aug. 27.

A storm over ,tlfe Mungana inquiry broke in the Queensland Parliament, when the attorney General, Mr Maegroartv moved tor the introduction of a bill to amend the Grown Remedies Act of 1874. He stated the reason why Theodore had not been criminally prosecuted, was that the evidence given before the Royai! Commission could not be used in criminal proceedings: The Government were now introducing legislation to amend the law so that a civil action may be taken, . .

The Bill was read a first time

CUTS IN SALARIES

ADELAIDE, Aug. 27

Drastic cuts in the Civil service 4aku •ies aire proposed by the State Government, in an effort to ballanee the Budget, From £3OO to £BOO sterling a year a graduated scale will apply and beyond that amount the rate will be drastic. A salary of £IOOO sterling would he reached by near v twenty-five per cent. The rate of wages t: ; x, tiias not vet; been ;decided, but it is stated it is "likely to be a shilling,,in the pound.

W HARFIES assaulted

ADELAIDE, Aug. 27

A crowd of two hundred stoned wharf labourers at Port Adelaide, One of the assaulted ’ men was thrown into the rivfer. Another had seven stitches inserted in a scalp wound. .An escorting constable whs also thrown into the river Torrents.