AUSTRALIA
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] INTEREST RATES. SYDNEY, August 5. The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. Limited, announces a reduction of its interest charges on overdrafts of 1 per cent, as from August 1. WENTWORTH FLOODS SYDNEY, August 6. The levee which was raised to keep back the Murray flood waters, gave way, and a huge wall of water swept across the settlement of Curlwaa into Wentworth. Both the southern and northern ends of Wentworth are nowinundated. Practically the whole town is surrounded by walls of sandbags, and the levees are being constantly patrolled. The hospital is still in great danger. Hundreds of homes are inundated. HOSPITAL IN DIFFICULTIES SYDNEY, August 6. There M'as not sufficient money in hand yesterday to pay the salaries and wages of the staff of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The Chairman of the Board of Directors stated the quota from the Government was a thousand pounds short in July. The hospital is steadily falling into arrears, the amount owing to tradesmen, etc., being about fifteen thousand pounds.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19310806.2.61
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1931, Page 9
Word Count
174AUSTRALIA Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1931, Page 9
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in