AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A EIRE AND EXPLOSION. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 29. A fire, following an explosion, extensively damaged’ a large garage at Elwood. When the flames were subdued, the charred body of David Eels, aged 22, a mechanic, w r as found beside a car. LABOUR DEFEATED. MELBOURNE, Aug. 29. Labour was heavily defeated in the municipal elections of Victorian Councils. Candidates suffered especially in the Metroplitan area. The defeat of W. Duggan, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, caused a sensation. LABOUR LOSES AT ELECTION. MELBOURNE, Aug. 30. In the municipal elections in Victoria only two of the twenty-six Labour candidates have been returned. labour” attitude. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 30. The report of the Political Industrial Committee, recommending the repudiation of war debts, has been submitted to the Australian Labour Party Executive, and was neither adopted nor rejected. The executive, instead, carried a resolution, the effect of which w'as to advocate the reduction of war loans and interest, and call on Mr Scullin to negotiate for the readjustment of the war debts. A resolution was passed advocating tlie abolition of the Loan Council in an attempt- to ensure profitable returns to all companies. J SHIPPING ASSOCIATION. SYDNEY, Aug. 30. The Oversea Shipping Representative Association formed a special dispatch committee to ration wool shipments under a log, which had been drawn up. Prevision w r as made for a certain. number of vessels to serve each wool sale, and it is laid down that the number of ships on the berth must not be more than is adequate to. handle all the wool offering. GAOLS CONGESTED SYDNEY, Aug. 30. The gaols throughout the State are so congested that the Government has issued a proclamation re-establishing the prison at Hay. The Consorting Act has made it easier for the police to obtain a conviction against wellknown criminals.