AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 18729, 3 September 1924, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S MISFORTUNES. SYDNEY, September 3. (Received September 3, at 8.55 a.m.) The court granted an application by the English, Scottish, and Australian Bank for winding up Patrick Steamships, Ltd., on the ground that the company was unable to pay its debts. The petitioners’ statement showed that the company owed them £105,000, against which they had security for £30,000. [A Sydney message of August 21 stated ; ‘‘ Patrick Steamships, Ltd., which in October last introduced drastic freight reductions in interstate shipping trade, has decided to go into liquidation. Captain Patrick, the managing director of the company, states that the cessation of operations has been brought about principally by insufficient support and intense competition.”] TIMBER WORKERS ON STRIKE. PERTH, September 3. (Received September 3, at 9.55 a.m.) _ Strikes occurred in several mills in the timber districts, owing to a dispute regarding piecework, to which the union objected. Three hundred men are affected. The Government mills allow pieceworkers the option of working on wages, teamsters receiving £6 a week, and the others £5. CRIME IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, September 3. (Received September 3, at 9.55 a.m.) A report from the Inspector-General of Police, tabled in the Assembly, shows that the number of cases dealt with by the courts in 1923 was 104,619, an increase of 7,530 compared with the number in 1922*