AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

w j£.. - - P(>i;iCE COMMISSIONER, VICTORIANAPPOINTMENT .MADE (Australian Press-Association-) ' MELBOUHNK. Aug. 26. General T. A. Blancy lias been reappointed Chief Commissioner of Police from 23 applicants from Australia and Yew Zealand. The appointment ip for three years at a reduced salary of £1250. REPUDIATION ISSUE. SYDNEY, Aug. 28. The New South Wales Labour Council to-night endorsed the War Debt repudiation policy, hut moderate LiiboiiT . opinion outside of ... New South! Wa -s is overwclmiUgly opposed. Hi iSg highly prqbableV' t thaf.^-the. a)iproachihg: Now South .Wale?.,,.§tate elections •• wi'! be fought /on ,-th’isr;^sixq.-,; MR SCULLIN IMPROVING,'.; - ' SYDNEY, jAugust' 28. . A radio’message has been" 1 received, from tije'Tner Ora in a, stating that the Prime Minister, Hon. Mr J..- El. Scullin’s health has slightly’,‘iinprqyed; ! r ’ BRITISH GLIDER RECORD. ' ADELAIDE, Aug. 28. J. K. Rice Oxlev, Instructor to the South Australian Aero Club, using a locally-designed and made glider, remained aloft for sixty-two minutes, which is a British record. FATAL ENDING. TO SHOOTING AFFRAY. SYDNEY, Aug. 29. Joseph Swan, one of the three men wounded by shots fired at a car at Newtown, on Monday, has died in the hospital.

WARNING AGAINST REPUDIATION. ADELAIDE, August 28. Professor Gregory, a member of S' r Otto Niemeyer’s financial mission, said that it would be impossible for Australia to repudiate its external debt obligations without at the same time repudiating its internal obligations. The owners of great blocks of Australian Government securities were either the.,people themselves or insurance companies, and, to some extent, Australian hanks, particularly savings hanks. Thus repudiation would mean that the Australian people themselves would suffer.