AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1921, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TASMANIAN SHIPBING. By Tclegraph.-‘Press Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, July 11. Mr. Massy-Greene informed a deputation of Tasmanian shipping circles that, under the Commonwealth constitution the Government had no power t© exempt any State from the provisions of any Act. He understood the Union Company was withdrawing vessels from the Tasmanian trip, not in consequence of the Navigation Act, but because of insufficient traffic during the winter months. He would issue permission to overseas vessels to trade to Tasmania during the apple season- if the coastal companies’ service was inadequate. RESTRICTING EDUCATION. Perth, July 11. Sir Edwin Wittenoom, Legislative Councillor, giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Education, after a visit to Sydney, stated that the expensive education efforts in New South Wales, judging by the Parliament-, larrikinism and disloyalty prevalent, had been a failure. He advocated that the State should restrict its activities to practical elementary education only. OPIHI IN CYCLONIC STORM. Sydney, July 11. The Opihi encountered the full (force of the recent cyclonic storm when bound from New Zealand to Melbourne with timber. The vessel was taken to sea to evade the storm, but a mountainous sea swept her from stem io stem for two days. When the wind shifted the seas were striking the vessel from three directions. Eventually she reached Port Kembla, but not till the engine-room and stokehold had been flooded.