AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3526, 13 July 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Received 9.40 a..m,

SYDNEY, This day.

The interim Broken Hill report on the miners’ disease recommends compensation and assistance for tubercular workers, and states the majority of the Broken Hill miners show no sign of dust in‘ the respiratory organs. The report expresses an ofiinion that mining can be continued with complete safety so far as injury to the lungs is concerned. The compulsory cortference _.‘ respecting the Broken Hill strike Has been adjourned until Tuesday. .

Arrived: \Kaul-i_, from New Zealand. MELBOURNE, This day,

The Imperial Government has cancelled the cheese and butter contracts from July first and thirty-first respectively. The new but-ter contract is starting on August first, being 240/ per hundred-weight. A

Received 11.30.

SYDNEY, This Day

The Broken Hill C'ofilmission recommends in future that all imrsons seeking employment. in the mines should be znedicmlly examined, none sufl'el'ing from tuberculosis or allied diseases being allowed to Work either ulldergrollnd or on the surface. All workers are to be pe—l'iodic:Llly oxzuninoifl-. "With those pv.'oc.'.lllt'lons the workéfué-‘I safety will be ensured. The commission also exulninetl a number of ca':s'es of suspected lead poisoning. Of the seventy-seven examined it \v:l:s‘ fouml about fifty per vont. were aifectotl by d‘iseas*e. but complete investig:_ltion would not be undertaken. Investigation for hookworn 1':1i.lo(l to di.scov?¥i‘ {L single case. .ADI*II.A.ID'.E, This Day.

There was fige weather fo"r the Pr.inae’s arrivai. The city is gaily decorated, and immense crowds were ;_{athorml along the line of ‘route in the pl-ineipul streets. The demonstrations of loyzflty were similar to those in other capitals.

Arrived: Kauna. Szfiiédz Kuroxv, for New Zealzmd. BRTS.BA.N‘E‘, This Day. Sir I\‘l‘altThow Nnthzlrx has been up pnini-ml (!m'('l'llor of Queensland.

3\’[ELBO'URN'FJ. This Day

Mr Green, Minister (f'or ‘Customs, mm. :1. «.Inplltatioll frmn Hm ;’\ust-mlian ,=\ssoréi:liioll of the British mulmfzL(l~ 11n'(*r.s~ Hm the nx'u:l'in;: systmn of‘ levy. ing duty on i1np01""t:< m 1 htmm r‘ongu~m]qtion vn‘lue was law. and any other :I'l'r:lngmm'-.-Ixt would opm-a,to hm-gh]y n;‘:nin.<:f'. ‘Britain.