AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

(BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] COLLISION WITH WHALE. SYDNEY, August 29. Passengers were flung from their seats when the Manly ferry steamer Barragoola collided with a whale opposite the Heads. As the boat resumed the voyage, the whale was seen, heading for the open sea, with a large wound in its side. STUNNED BY LIGHTNING. SYDNEY, August 29. Six persons were stunned by a flash of lightning at Five Dock Suburb, during a fierce electrical storm. Others were temporarily blinded. Wireless aerials were torn down, and fencing and brickwork smashed. Four of the victims were hurled from their feet, and a little boy was temporarily paralysed. One woman who was thrown from her feet had her face browned as if burnt. IRONWORKS DISPUTE SYDNEY, August 29. The strike at Lysaght’s, Newcastle, has extended, and now practically all the employees, making a total of twelve hundred, have ceased work. The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Dunningham) has intervened, and has ordered the taking of a secret ballot, to-day, on the question of the discontinuance of the stoppage. COMPANY AFFAIRS MELBOURNE, August 29. The bill providing for an investigation at any time of the affairs of any company operating in Victoria, was read a first time in the Legislative Assembly. The Attorney-General (Mr. Macfarlane) said that there were certain companies in Victoria operating in a way that was certainly against the public interest. Their operations involved transactions that were fraudulent. Enquiries ipto the activities of a number of companies were being made in New Zealand, New South Wales, and South Australia, but only three of these companies were operating in Victoria.