AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SIR O. NIEMEYER. (Australian Press Association.) , (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Sir O. Niemeyer states his visit to New Zealand is partly holiday. While there he will confer with leading bankers. N.S.W. POLITICS. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. At a meeting of the State Cab.net it was decided to begin a short session of New South Wales Parliament; on Sept. 16 when the Financial Statement will he presented, arising out of Sir O. Niemeyer’s visit.

The State elections will bo bold on October 25 or November 1.

SHEARERS REFUSE TO WORK (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.'. PERTH, Sept. 3. Nearly four hundred members of the Australian Workers’ Union are refusing to work in the shearing sheds under the new award, Thirty sheds, employing 380 men have .finished, Pastoralists will struggle along on the other stations with the aid of their own staffs,' men from farming districts and shearers from South Australia. Complaint Is made that men leaving Perth to fulfil shearing engagements are subject to intimidation by advocates of disobedience of the new award. SEAMEN GIVE TROUBLE, ADELAIDE, *Scpt. 3. Police, escorting a wool laden lorry from Port Broughton were surrounded by a crowd who stoned the constables. When they attempted to disperse the men, a. policeman fired a revolver whereupon the crowd disappeared. The only seamen who have given notice thus far belong to ships trading to the. South Australian coast. QUEENSLAND POLITICS. BRISBANE, Sept. 3. When the Attorney-General, McGroarty, moved the second reading of the Crown Remedies Act Amendment Bill to enable the Crown to institute proceedings against Theodore, McCormack, Goddard and Reid, for the recovery of £40,000 paid by the Labour Government for the purchase of Mungana Mine, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Morgan Smith,) declared the, Ministry was pursuing a. political vendetta, that would affect not only the Mungana case, but all cases in the future in which tlie Crown was a party. YACHT RACE. MELBOURNE, Sept, 3. Yachtsmen accepting the challenge for a trans-Tasman race, will leave Queeusqliff on Boxing, Day and set a course for Nelson as recommended by Captain Thorpe, former harbour master at Lyttelton. SMALLPOX. A PATIENT QUARANTINED. BRISBANE, Sept. 3. The liner Nieuw Zeeland has a ease of smallpox aboard. The patinet and five Brisbane passengers were landed into quarantine. The mails are being fumigated. The ship left for Sydney where the remaining passengers may be quarantined.