TRADE TREATY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20415, 9 December 1931, Page 11

TRADE TREATY.

CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. VALUE OP JUDICIOUS ADVERT] SING. (UMTTID PRESS A.SSOCIJ TIOH —BT JtLBCTIIC TELEQiAPH—C< PTBIGHT.) (Received December Bth, 10.45 p.m.) SYDNIY, December 8. Advice has been received from Ottawa to the effect that the recent reciprocal Canadian-A jstralian treaty has substantially incrsased trade between the two Dominions. oudicious and effective advertising placed in tho Canadian papers by the Australian Director of! Publicity has created a demand for lAustralian products, which hitherto hod not existed. Mr H. 11. Stevens, Canadian Minister for Trade and Comtnerce, says the now treaty will be mutually advantageous. It has already justified the hopos of the two peoples. He jalso expressed the hope that Australians en route to the Homeland would travfel by the Canadian route and combine business with pleasure. Mr Stfcvens added that there was no contact like personal contact. SAVINGS BANK MERGER. (Received December Btli, <10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 8. The State Executive Council lias approved December ICtJi as the date of the amalgamation of the Ngw South Wales Government Savings Bank with the Commonwealth Bank. SEAMEN'S UNION. FAILURE OF MILITANT SECTION. (Received December Bth, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 8. The militant section of the Seamen's Union to-day made an unsuccessful attempt to declare all vessels belonging to the Union Steam Ship Company "black" owing to the company's refusal to dismiss the Koranui's crew. The motion was overwhelmingly defeated. Consequently, no trouble is expected on the Niagara to-morrow when she is due to sail. NURSING RISK. TUBERCULAR INFECTION. SYDNEY, December 1. Risks of infection incurred by hospital nurses wore referred to before the Workers' Compensation Commission, when an award was made in/ favour of Diana Ferguson Breckenridge, a young nurse, who was found to have contracted pulmonary tuberculosis while nursing at tho Coast Hospital Auxiliary between April and July, 1928. Slio was awarded £2 10s 8d a week from November 23rd, 1930, to continue during total or partial incapacity, with £25 medical expenses, £25 hos-, pital expeiises, and "costs' on tKe highest scale. ! Dr. James Sinclair (xnedicaj superintendent of the sanitarium at Hazedbrook) said his opinion'was that nurses picked up the disease «from patients with undiagnosed tuberculosis. Dr. W. H. Palmer (medical superintendent at Waterfall Sanitarium) stated, on the other hand, that during his 22 years at the sanitarium only four nursee had been incapacitated through pulmonary tuberculosis, and in two of those cases, infection could be definitely dissociated from » their employment.