AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1933, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] COMMONWEALTH CENSUS SYDNEY, June 30. The Commonwealth Government has carried out a census throughout Australia overnight. It is expected to have an important bearing on the movement of population since the war, and since the depression began. OVERDUE COLLIER. SYDNEY, June 30. There is still no trace of the missing collier Christina Fraser, which, it disabled 1 , will have drifted one hundred miles across the Tasman Sea by now. ■ An Air Force flying boat wgs in the air searching for eight hours to-day. She reported the search was fruitless. A small coastal vessel is carrying on the search. SYDNEY, July 1. Kingsford Smith, with John Stannage a s wireless operator, in the Southern Cross, will leave Mascot this morning, to search for the missing collier Christina Fraser. An extra petrol tank has been fitted to the monoplane, which will carry sufficient petrol for thirteen fours’ cruising. BLUE STAR LINE. SYDNEY, July 1. The “Sydney Morning Herald’s” London correspondent advises that the Blue Star Line intends entering the Australian carrying trade, "with one ship per month. Sir Edmund Vestey, a director of the line, said that Britishers were nevei’ afraid of competition. He asked how could the Commonwealth afford to put a barbed wire fence round its shores, restricting the entry of certain ships, whilst her foreign competitors have ports open to the freest competition, not only to their own nationals, but ft) , British and other, lines.