AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1932, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —OOPYBIGHT.]

COINING PLANT RAIDED. ' SYDNEY, November 12.

Detectives raided a house at Alexandria and found in a dug-out beneath the building a coining plant. An engineer was arrested with two thousand counterfeit coins in his Ijossession. FEDERAL LAND TAX. MELBOURNE, November 13. A committee representing over fifty inter-State organisations, expressed disappointment at the proposed reduction in the Federal land tax. Total abolition is considered to be the only remedy. BACON FACTORY DISPUTE. MELBOURNE, November. 12. Employees of the bacon-curing works of two Ballarat firms struck, because the employers refused a ten shillings weekly increase in wages, which are now 85/6. A meeting of the employers decided to close all works in the State immediately, idling 500 men. AUSTRAL-GERMAN PROJECT. SYDNEY, November 11. Captain Hans Bertram has planned a flight to London in his Junkers monoplane, with Mr. G. U. Allen, an Australian, as co-pilot. They are commencing from North-West Australia about December 12.

Sir C. Kingsford Smith has released Allen from his arrangement to accompany him on his Tasman flight early in the new year.

Captain Bertram’s object is to establish a record for commercial flights. He is taking samples of Australian produce from all of the States.