AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1931, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

H.M.S. DUNEDIN. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.in.) SYDNEY, Ala rcli 5. Two hundred officers and marines of H.M.S. Dunedin are marching through the City to-morrow in aid of the Earthquake Fund. LABOUR ANNOYED. •SYDNEY, March 5. Air Theodore’s condemnation of Air Lang’s policy, so annoyed the State Labour Executive, that they have given instructions to Dailey Labour Council which endorsed Air Theodore’s candidature, to expel them from the movement on the ground of disloyalty. THE CHURCH AND POLITICS. NEWCASTLE, March 5. The contention that the Church should take the lead in political affairs was described hv Doctor Wright, Primate of Australia, as a “cuckoo cry.” He said the time had passed when the high dignitaries of the Church were associated with positions in civil life. The Church must lend in bringing people hack to God.

PRISONERS AI CUNY

SYDNEY, March 4

Refusing to obey the orders of the warders and declaring they demanded justice, prisoners in the Parramatta gaol mutinied. When they were promised an official inquiry into their grievances they marched back to their cells.

The mutiny took the form of passive resistance, but to prevent an attempt to cVeatc a riot. detachments were rushed to the gaol. Recently one prisoner attacked a warder and was punished. The details of the affair were greatly exaggerated and the other prisoners mutinied as a protest.

Among the 350 prisoners in the gaol at present are some of the worst criminals in Australia.