AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3585, 22 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

COMMONWEALTH NAVAL CHANGES.

Received 9.25 a.m

SYDNEY, This Day

Commodore Dumaresq has hoisted his flag aboard the warship Melbourne, which now displaces the Australia as the" flagship of the Commonwealth fleet.

COST OF LIVING,

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MELBOURNE, This Day

Giving evidence at the forty-hour i week Commission of enquiry, an officer ,of the Commonwealth Si atistician’s Department submitted figures showing that goods now costing wholesale over £2, were purchaseablo in 19,10 for £l. Comparing the years 1913 and 1918-19, the Commonwealth’s output had decreased twenty per cent., the value of j such output being £1(5,500,000 and | £1.27,000,000 respectively. The area j under wheal had decreased by 3,200, 000 acres, (ho number of cattle had decreased by 100.000, sheep by 10,000, 000, wool by 1)0,000,0001b, and butter by 17,000,0001 b. If prices had remained unchanged the value of general products for 1918-19 would have been £.177,750,000, compared with | £218,250,000 in 1913. i Received 11.45 a.m.

SYDNEY, This day. Board of Trade evidence has disclosed that clothing and footwear prices have advanced twenty-five Dev cent compared with 19.19 prices. CYCLONIC STORM. Received 11.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, This day. A cyclonic storm at Chiltern, wrecked the main telegraphic Dries from Sydney to Melbourne, and dislocated Inter-State communications. The storm was of such force that it blew a house over, while others were unroofed. INCOME TAX AMENDMENT. Received 11.45 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. The Assembly passed a resolution on the motion of Mr Wearne, Leader of ihe Progressives, that the Income Tax Act be amended to tax farmers on their average earnings for five years in order to allow for losses. SWIMMING. Received 11.45 a.m. SYDNEY, This day.

Mr Kelly, secretary of the Swimming Union of Australia, has received word that Kahanamoku is coming to Australia with Kealoha in December. Vermont has not yet replied. EX-SISTER LIGOITRI, Received 11.45 a.m. SYDNEY, This: day. Miss Partridge, the escaped nun, interiewed, said she has no wish to see her brother at present, as she felt he was endeavouring to take her back to conventual ifc. Site preferred the company of those who had befriended her until she is strong enough to return to Ireland.

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT

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SYDNEY, This day

Mr James has been appointed act-ing-judge for six months, the appointment to be made permanent next year. SPORTING. Received 11.45 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. Chrysolaus, who finished lame in the Rosehill Spring Stakes, has been scratched for the Metropolitan, but not for the Epsom. Chrysolaus is not working, and is still under the care of a veterinary surgeon. PROHIBITION OP BOOKMKERS Received 11.45 a.m. ADELAIDE, This day.

Mr Harwell, Premier, informed a Reputation that he was introducing drastic legislation to obliterate clandestine book-making, which still existed despite the law absolutely pro hibiting bookmakers in the State. The new egishxtion whl provide a heavy penalty for the first offence and imprisonment for subsequent, offences.

FEDERAL TIMBER PURCHASE. Received 11.45 a.ra, MELBOURNE, This flay. Mr Blakley, discussig the Queensland timber purchase, in the House of Representatives, said the Queensland Government four years ago offered the same property for less. Since then 30,000,000 feet of timber had been taken off. Mr Ryan said he did not remember the offer being made while he was Premier of but be advocated a Commission to inquire into the deal.

HOMES FOR SERVICE MEN.

Received 11.45 a.m.

MELBOURNE, This day.

In the House of Representatives, the War Service Homes Bill was read a second time.

AEROPLANE ACCIDENT.

Received 11.45 a.m. BRISBANE, This day

An aeroplane, with Lieutenant Bartlett in charge, and carrying two passengers, came to grief at an altitude of five thousand feet when flying between Taroom and Gayndah. The engine failing, the machine crashed into a tree. Bartlett broke a log in three places, and one passenger was also severely injured. Both are now Inmates of the Taroom hospital.