AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1923, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) TENNIS TOURS*. SYDNEY, December 7. W. O. Dunlop, returning from a tour abroad, .said that he negotiated with representatives of the 1< rench tind English tennis authorities. The latter promised to send a team to Australia next year.

SALE OF SHIPS. -■ SYDNEY, December 7. The Commonwealth Shipping Board has disposed of sixteen steamers, one half of the number of vessels for sale under Air Larkin’s reorganisation scheme. rinderpest. SYDNEY, December 7. A conference between the various State authorities has been fixed in Sydney for next Thursday to decide oil joint action to prevent the spread vf rinderpest. QUEENSLAND “DIAMONDS.” BRISBANE, December The Government Geologist, alter examining the specimens, states that the stones found at, Woman, were not diamonds but zircons, which aie plentiful in I bey are good specimens, but not of much commercial value. CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES. ATELBOURNE, Dec. 7. In the Assembly the Premier announced increased salaries to public servants in the general division. The basic wage had been fixed at £206 and in the professional and clerical divisions, £lB6, the increases totalling £53,616 per annum.

REGISTRATION OF NURSES. SYDNEY, December 7. In the Assembly the Nurses’ Registration Bill was introduced. It provides for the establishment of a hoard ■f,-, suspond nurses from practice when deemed necessary. Nurses will be classified as general, mental and midwifery. At the expiration of a year it will 'be an offence for persons not qualified to assume the titles mentioned. BEER BOTTLES OR FISTS? MELBOURNE, Dec. 7 Following comment on the growing use of the beer bottle as a weapon in street squabbles, the Flemington branch of the Australian Natives’ Association discussed the matter. and concluded that the first, not a beer hottie was still the national weapon of defence in Australia. A motion urging the Government to compel the use of short necked beer bottles, thus making them useless as weapons of defence, was defeated. DAVIS CUP PLAY. SYDNEY, Dec. 7. Anderson, commenting on the controversy respecting Tilden’s play in the Davis Cup matches, says that during the first three sets, ’1 ilden played chiefly from the base line. The Australians won the second and third. Even when serving Tilden

invariably refrained from going i’oiward to volley, which was a sufficient departure from the recognised practice to cause comment. The Australian players were unaware of the interview with Tilden and selectors till after the contest. The changed tactics made the American pair infinitely more formidable; In fact but for the alteration Australia would have been victorious.