AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z.' Cable Association.) rtMORULFLOODS. . / MELBOURNE, May lb. Floods in the. Snowy River Valley ■swept a’ large - area■ -of'anaize; causing damage estimated' at £50,000. INFANTILE ‘ . ■ ./A MELBOUJIFE,ZMay 14. Since December 31, -fifty .;qases;.of. infantile paralysis have been reported in 1 Victoria. ■' One. family lost four young children. MINERS’. '•% ’ . SYDNEY, May:.l4, i The President of Jhe Coal) is calling a conference to- consider tfte! claims of the miners throughout the Commonwealth, for Jncypased jwQgM. and improved working < conditions. ’These include, b minimum ’ weekly wage of £5 10s, a seven hour day, and a five-day week.. '

. - UNION’S FINE. - "A PERTH, May 15. It is ascertained that' the line /Qf / £lOOO which was imposed. on '■ the Fremantle Lumpers’ Union by We Federal executive, because -of, their < action in declaring the chartered ships “black” has been .reduced by the . executive to a shilling for every man 'in the Union. ■ \ FLOOD DAMAGE. ' : f ■ SYDNEY, -May .14..': ' The subsidence ofthe/floods ,Ab?rig. the. Hawkesbury and . iiyersi shows that the inundations-. caused heavy damage to crops and property, besides claiming a third victim, /William Atkins, grazier, who, while crossing a . flooded creejc in the Upper Clarence, was washed off his horse arid drowned. : -: ~ . ••,. • 7, ■ SYDNEY, . The City report', to-tfie Town Clerk,points out ' that 1 during , the past three years, i steady increase iii the deipi}pd‘ fbr. books at the. .’Municipal -Library/' the increase hejrig mainly,/ fiction : 3)rid poetry. . : During' <1924,' a ./riecord output of books was registered. tFertMai demand being 461,088,. compared ‘ with 446,648 during the previous, year.- tri the past two years'. 2158 .bpdks, jnaij)ly .fiqtion, were stolen..'The.Eibrariin x states that this loss by theft'Vas';the aftermath of war as prior tp-1916,'the . loss was infinitesimal./V! '/ert y /.• YOUTH'S DESPERAII’ON. ; f .: ■' ; A recent-arrival ~ Jtb.lfi. y-Npw '’Zealand, Edwgrd Lesjie/ltijis, < dge t d''p , : teyn,. was. „the -police with damaging ;;a,Aviibibriy,vV/it/j'cVsah > Stated cipne :tp Sydney,-/tfiill^- 1 big he., wqiild.. ha.ye;, a ; better’ I ;piianeq ■ bei £., •, HfV.ljaiirid . ' was : on. the verge of' start’atidii,'.ai(d' broke. a window. - .'The - police,' .stated that he wished Jo iHake sure/ bf/’ ’ ting bqd. and; m»al? ' y■ -Hills -war, .fined a shiffipg/hnd ; : £1 to . repair?• the damage.' He i.n charge by tlie? Salyafton ;Arifiy:-! till he found„.WQi’l<pr,; r.Qtjirjifti'/td -jNow