AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FATALITIES ON NEW. ZEALAND , . , . SHIP. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ■•. (Aust.-N.Z. Caole Association.) Melbourne, June 7. Upon arrival from New Zealand of the Union Company's steamer Kamu she was fumigated; Subsequently Carter, chief steward, and Nixon, watchman, were found fatally asphyxiated in the engineers' cabin. They apparently had closed the door, owing t : o the cold, before the fumes had escaped. COLD SNAP. T • . Sydney, June 7. Ihe weather is bitterly cold, as the result of a snowfall in the highlands. Saturday was the coldest June day since 1862. The cold is caueing losses among emaciated stock in the draught areas. " SHOULD DO MORE TRADE. (Received June 8, 1 p.m.) , r „. ' ' Sydney, Juno 8. Mr \\, J. Napier, of Auckland, who is visiting Sydney, in an interview, strongly advocated the development of trade between Australia and New Zealand. There are many of the commodities of these ■ countries, he said, that could mutually be'eupplied to each other which were riow neglected. A better steamship service was a. necessity.

THE GUILD SYSTEM. In reference to the cable message from London about Guild Socialism in England (appearing Aμ another column, the bulk of the opinion of both employers aiid employees in Sydney appears to be that it is unlikely at piesent to obtain a footing" in Australia. The main stumbling block in the labour unions, which are in strong opposition to •everything in titie shape of the division of profits system.