AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 18142, 5 December 1922, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

QUEENSLAND’S EX-SOLDIERS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. BRISBANE, December 5. (Received December 5, at 11 a.m.) Mr Theodore, Premier, states that Queensland is not the State refeiTcd to by Karl Haig respecting tho £I,OOO request fiom the Governor. It was gross misrepresentation to say that cx-servico men were starving. Some returned soldiers had been unemployed, but the Commonwealth and the State Governments had spent £70,000 in providing employment. ______________ i CASE OP MAJOR KENDRICK. SYDNEY, December 5. (Received December 5, at 11.15 a.m.) Major Rarsani, secretary of the Imperial Ex-Service League, states that five or six men visit him. daily seeking work or assistance. There are roughly 300 ex-service men stranded in Sydney, the bulk of whom have bad no previous experience. A number were sent out by the overseas settlement branch of the’ British Legion, of which Lord Haig is tho supreme head. Major Rassam, instancing individual cases of hardship, mentions Major Kendrick, of the Royal Engineers, with several distinctions in the Army and Navy, who was second aidc-dc-camp to Lord Jcllicoe at the Battle of Jutland, and whoso wounds in that engagement compelled his retirement from the Navy. _ Although Major Kendrick holds diplomas in mechanical marine and mining engineering ho is unable to obtain employment in Australia. WALSH ISLAND. SYDNEY, December 5. (Received December 5, at 11.15 a.m.) The New South Wales State Government is considering offers for tho sale of tho Walsh Island shipbuilding yards at Newcastle. Mr Ball, the -Minister in Charge, expresses tho opinion that the State should sell its industrial enterprises, but not sacrifice them. The yards are valued at between £700,000 and £Boo,oooi. The Broken Hill Proprietary Company was desirous of purchasing the yards during the war, but the Commonwealth Government intervened and blocked the sale.