AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3543, 3 August 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

o aviation. PARER AND McINTOSH ARRIVE. A NARROW ESCAPE. Received 10.50 a m, DARWIN,‘This day. Parer and Mclntosh arrived with sufficient petrol to last for only two miles.

VESSELS FOR NEW ZEALAND. Received 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. The training ship Veronica, and a sloop mine-sweeper have arrived and are proceeding to New Zealand.'. SHIPPING. Received 10.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. Arrived: Ooma and Westnieath from Dunedin; Ihumata, from Hokianga. Sailed (from Newcastle): White Pine for New Zealand. ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME. - I Received 10.50 a.m. MELBOURNE, This day. Sir John Monash has been appointed manager of the Morwell Electric Power Scheme at a salary of £3OOO per year MOUNT MORGAN MINE. i BRISBANE, Aug. 2. | At the annual meeting of the Mt. Morgan Co. the articles of association were altered -with the object of making operations more profitable and than in earnings depended so largely, as hitherto, on the price of copper. The alterations empower the company to undertake extensive developments, especially in regard to minerals, chemicals. engineering, lines supplying electric power for public and private purposes, and purchasing and chartering ships.