AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1931, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] JOCKEY AS STOWAWAY SYDNEY, November 7. A New Zealand jockey, who found conditions bad in his own country tried to stowaway on the Aorangi. He will be returned to New Zealand, if he cannot raise the passage money. N.S.W. SAVINGS BANK SYDNEY, November 7. The N.S.W. Savings Bank Commissioners appointed the President (Mr. O’Malley Wood) and the Vice Presi'dent (Mr. Butters) to confex- with the sub committee of the Commonwealth Bank. Although the President would not say that the chief subject of disccssion would be a proposal to fuse the institutions that seems to be obvious. ’ SEAMEN’S UNION. SYDNEY, November 6. Threats by the Seamen’s Union that those who, in defiance of the Union, manned the vessels last week and ensfbled the strike to be broken, would be disciplined, have brought a reply 'from the shipowners that these men would continue to be engaged while their work was satisfactory. PAPUAN MASSACRE. CANBERRA, Novembex- 6. The Lieutenant Governor of Papua has sent a radio message to the Prime Minister, Mr - Scullin, reporting that a massacre -had been carried out by natives in the Fly River district, the cause of which is being investigated by the Resident Magistrate, Mr Wood- ; ward, who declares that the Fly River ' Natives are treacherous headhunters, . and that probably they are short of tobacco and other articles.