AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1922, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

(Received 10 a.m.) CRIME IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, this day. On the strength of a report by the I Commissioner of Police of increasing ! crime, the Government has decided on ! the immediate adoption of the motor : patrol system and the appointment of an 'additional 55 constables. — (A. and N.Z.) HAMBURG TO AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, June 15. I Tt is officially announced that the 'Commonwealth Government line of steamers has decided to extend its activities to Germany. The first steamer for Australia, the Parattah. will leave Hamburg on July 4.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) INCOME TAX AND GOLDMINING BRISBANE, this day. The Supreme Court decided that the j Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company is liable to pay income tax on £14.000 re- | ceived for the sale of gold abroad. The company contended that the transaction 1 abroad "was independent of the Queens- , land activities. The Court decided that there were not two businesses, one for j production and one for the sale of gold; , it was all one business. — (A. and N.Z.) TASMANIAN FREIGHTS. HOBART, this day. The Union Steamship Co. reduced freight on its produce for Hobart and the North-West to the mainland by 10 per cent, in conformity with the reduction by the Tasmanian State line several months ago.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) COALMINERS' WAGES. SYDNEY, this day. It is officially announced on behalf of the Coal Miners' Federation that steps will be taken to obtain an injunction from the High Court against Mr. Justice Hibble and the Coal Tribunal proceeding | to deal with the owners' application for a reduction of wages by thirty-three and one-third per cent and alteration in the J conditions of labour.— (A. and N.Z.) THE McGIRR DISPUTE. SYDNEY, this day. The Labour Conference rejected a j number of amendments in respect of the I MoGirr-dispute, and by 88 to 42 votes carried a motion that the "first committee I appointed report to the Conference at the J earliest date possible.— (A. and N.Z.)