AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1922, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GILBERT GROUP COMMISSIONER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 21. Mr. H. R. MeLure, the new Resident Commissioner of Gilbert and Ellice Islands, has arrived. Tie was formerly Commissioner of the district of Kenya, in East Africa. EVENING NEWS CONTROL. Sydney, Jan. 21. It is understood new arrangements have been made in connection with the Evening News, under which certain prominent Sydney business men have secured. a substantial share interest and will join the directorate. Mr. H. J. Tapperell, formerly News, editor, gets full control of the editorial departments. A BY-ELEQTION. Melbourne, Jan. 21. Mr. King O’Malley is a candidate for the vacancy caused by Mr. Tudor’s death. ’ «. . <r GERMAN EXPERTS’ TROUBLE. Melbourne, Jan. 21. •Senator Earle, explaining the Federal Government’s attitude in refusing admission to German experts to erect machinery, said there were plenty of similar experts obtainable in America, and they should be obtained there instead of from the nation which caused the world catastrophe in 1914. The Government’s decision, he said, was final. SYDNEY CITY RAILWAY. Sydney, Jan. 21. The State Government has authorised the Railway Commissioners to immediately resume the construction of the long delayed city railway. AN EARTHQUAKE RECORDED. Sydney, Jan. 21. The seismograph at the Observatory recorded a violent earth trenior shortly after eight o’clock yesterday morning. The origin is believed to have been among the ilsands north of Australia. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Hobart, Jan. 21. The conference of the National Council of Women adopted resolutions urging the pressing need for legislation providing legal control and segregation of mentally unfit women; also the necessity for healthy and convenient dwellings for all in the interests of public health and morality.