AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1925, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

Australian apd N.Z, Cablei Association

CARS IN COLLISION ’ SYDNEY, June 14.

The Governor-General’s mdtor car, containing Captains Mulholland and Lawrence, collided with an overturned car in the city, three occupants of which were injured. Both cars were badly damaged.'" ' ‘ ..' ' '

HUSBAND-SEEKER’S THEFTS ADELAIDE, Juno 15.

A young woman was convicted of obtaining £SG worth of wearing! apparel including six frocks, -under a false name. She pleaded that she wanted a husband and thought that “those clothes would get me one,” She was given the'-benefit of 'the First Offenders’ Act.

PACIFIC CONFERENCE ADELAIDE, June 13.

Among the motions agreed' to at the Conference'* of the Australian in-ter-State Trades and Labour delegates.'Avas one as” follows:- '.'That realising that the Pacific will -be the future cockpit' Of the wbrld, tills’ Conference" fccomniehded that arrangements -be made to hold a pan-Paciflc conference in Australia of all the industrial and political bodies bordering the Pacific.” ’

SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. ‘‘ MELBOURNE, June 15.

The ' developments which occurred during the week-end have changed the delaying of the' ste’amer Monaco from being an isolated case of-Union interference to one’’ affecting InterState shipping policy. It 'is now believed in marine circles thlit this dispute will’lead to li climax''in the tangled affairs on the waterfront.

The Alclbourne Steamship Company decided to pay off the Monafo-s crow and tie up the vessel. ’ ' r . • SYDNEY, June 15.

In response tc an advertisement for seaman to man the steam'ers Eromanga. and Dilga (at Cocßiltbo Island, a few inen have 1 applied. Hopes are' now entertained that the whole ninety will be- forthcoming. <( _

* PRESS ANIY RXdICi.

SYDNEY, Jhne 13.

The Secretary’s report to be presented at the annual' meeting of the Country Press Association, draws attention to the disabilities under which coi'un try licwspapets suffer in competition with broadcasting. In the past the newspaper office, has been the Centre from which the rural' population ob--tainell its news. The proprietory spent money freely obtaining such news but tb-day-in most centres, the local barber is eqliipned with a receiving set, and is able to post the news practically without expense, long before proprietors, paying urgent rates for the same information, receive it by telegraph. Amongst the subjects discussed at the annual meeting ,will be the provision of a special broadcasting service for the country press. Apropos of this, city newspapers -and the public generally arc keenly interested in the wireless transmission of news between West Australia. and the Eastern States. At the present time the trans. Continental, telegrams take as long a time to transmit' as do the cablegrams between London and Sydney,