AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1931, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A VETERANS PROGRAM DIE. ( iustralian Press Association) (Received tliis day at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY, May 26. Sixteen veterans whose ia^e s aggregated 1,150 years provided a most unique entertaining Groadfcast programme at station 2BL Sydney tonight. Only two members of the party were under seventy years and included former opera singers, instrumentalists, pianists and monologists whose talents even now are remarkable. The announcers age wa s 75. He gave a brief, happy sketch of the career of eacli contributor. REDUCING INTEREST. : MELBOURNE, May 26. The Treasurer’s report to the Premiers Conference on the. question of reducing interest rates on Government bonds in Australia which proposes to make a out in the Internal Interest Bill, is estimated to save 6£ million sterling and also reduce the average rate of interest to £4-10s 9d per cent. The Conference proposes four per cent, as the interest rate on converted stock. MUNGANA TRIAL. BRISBANE, May 20. The trial of the action, before a jurge and jury, of E. G. Theodore, W. McCormack, P. IT. Goddard' and dL Reid., arising out. of,, the , sale of ,£he Mungana leases to Queensland Government is set down for hearing on July -13th:. ’• : ; OBITUARY,SYDNEY, May 27. Obituary—Archdeacon Bovce, at the agd of 87 years. - ; - • - " '- J - He was one of the most notable figures in the religious ' social life of Australia. He retired only last year from the Incumbency of St. Paul's Church of England, Redforn, and went to live at Blackheath on the Bine Mountains. He was a leader of the temperance movement, a pioneer advocate of old age pensions, and an arcl ent patriot. His work among the poor is a household word. His son is Air T. S. Boyce, a King’s Councillor, and a former State Attorney-General.