AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN.

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 12. It. Love, Chairman .of the New, South Wales Hospitals Commission, recently suggested many hundred of women, girls and youths might be profitably employed salvaging unwanted household goodis, which are now sent to the rubbish tip.

A mass meeting of unemployed women and girls io-day fesolutioned expressing disgust and indignation at Hove’s suggestion that they should make scavengers of themselves. ‘"We think a man drawing a salary of ( twelve hundred a year should endeavour to earn it in some more practical manner. Meanwhile our Australian women by -birth or adoption, being British, intend to remain British.

RETURN TO ARTARCTTC. OF THE ‘DISCOVERY.” SYDNEY, September 12. The exploration ship “Discovery” leaves Melbourne for the Antarctic on November Ist. Her crew will be recruited next month. A LUNCHEON. MELBOURNE, Sept. 13.. At the Travel Promotion League luncheon, Mr A. J. Manson, the retiring general agent and Trade Commissioner of New Zealand in Australia, and first President of the League, was elected a life member representative travel interests. Mr Manson will. also be entertained ■at a luncheon of the Empire Reciprocity League of which lie as a councillor, next Tuesday. . ; ‘

SUSPECTED MURDER. (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) . MELBOURNE, September 13. The skeleton of a man aged- about 28, was found covered in bushes near Coldstream. The police express the opinion that the man was murdered. WATERSIDERS DECISION. MELBOURNE, September 13. „ Waterside Workers Federation decided that members should offer theinselefe dl* re^elnployinent.

LABOUR DECISIONS.

(Received this dav at. ll n.th.* MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. Far reaching proposals were contained in the report'submitted by the sub-committee on the employment and financial position at a special interstate conference of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions. Among the recommendations made were that to free the credit resources of the country, the Federal Government should provide £20,000,000,. that the decisions of the Premiers Conference be repudiated by the Federal State Labour Governments and the Loan | Council be dissolved. STATE PARLIAMENTS. SYDNEY, Sept. 13. Premier Bavin, referring to Mr Fenton's remarks that there were too many Parliaments in Australia, said that" such a suggestion at the* present time only obscures the real issue. Obviously there must he a Parliament for each State.