AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Aasnei-.tion.>'

CHEAPER WIRELESS. ME LBOUR-N E;'juf ay ■ 'Si. The Posti’ilAstiuk 'General »n'nou-nix>c i reduction of 7)6 a year in the foe charged for Lstening-in licenses. MOUSE PEST. ■SYDNEY, May 20. Coincident with a mice plague in the wheat areas of the Riverina, along the Murray River, a disease haS Leconte prevalent among the children, known locally as the mouse disease. The City •Health Officer 'Stiites ~that'it'is' scibiitili--cally known as “favus,”. and isdue-txi ‘a fungus which affects the hair, follicles ■causing sbres ori the bodyt-q. Cats 1 and mice are- both -spreaders of the disease.

SEAMEN’S UNION. , - MELBOURNE,'. May. 21. 1 The President I '‘of: thb '-Beaffiens Union (Mr’Walsb) staW thatu- tne management committee Avas aUpresent in session; The general consensus of opinidh was tftat the application lor dc-registratidii -would not'tfe'-- 1 ’opposed. -Tire final decision however, has not yet been reached. Application ’ ’is- to bd' h 6ai ! d “by "the Cdhiniohwealth Arbitration Court to-day. -.-.

CATERING EMPLOYEES’ UNlOtfr ' v PERTH; ’ The Arbitration Court; rerei-redlftho employers’ application'-'To d.h-ieg’ister the Caterers Employees’A'Uiuohy? '■ on the ground that the• reference.-to the Court by the Union was’ stilt pendntg. The employers’ counsel said that.'the reference was three ''or '-fbur !i yed-rs eld. . .. - • . -y‘The Acting-President said \tliat tiie reference must' hot; be de'eiiffij: /'abandoned, in view of the/.congested ..state of ' the Court’s business. . ' Av '- VITAL' STATISTICS.!w SYpNEYv Muy .21. r i According to the i annual 'of the Gbveniment Statistician; the..p<>pnlation of New South-Wales-at-'the^eqd of December, last was 2,256,'649; increase during the -year of. 45,643.' The males- niimber females' 1,104,592;' ‘ ’The 'nuinber \ ,pf children under -one year- who /died was 3 191 or 59-5 perThdusaiid,- which is seven per cent,.-, below'the avbtqge if the previous five years. -• ■JCarSM--af'counted i fbr-2078 dedtHsAo'r thousand, hn -Tftcrease l " i of cent, above the average of the preceding- five years, y T-’ (ky-