AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] CRIPPLE’S SUICIDE. SYDNEY, December 18. A crippled man committed suicide over a zuOft. cliff at Manly to-day. He has been identified as Arthur Henry Woodger, 46. a native, of Wellington, New Zealand. WORKMAN CRUSHED. SYDNEY, December 19. Two men, Leslie Wityurb, 36, and Ralph Page, 24, were killed when a steel awning weighing two tons, and three tons of a brick wall crashed on them, while they were working on a new building at Bathurst. KISCH’S APPEAL. SYDNEY, December 18. The case of Herr Kisch, anti-war delegate, was further argued to-day. Mr. Manning, K.C., State Attorney-General, appeared on behalf of the Commonwealth in his private capacity as a member of rhe bar. The case is part heard. SYDNEY MAYORALTY. SYDNEY, December 18. The newly-elected Sydney City Council has made two unsuccessful attempts to elect a Lord Mayor. .On each occasion the voting resulted in a deadlock. There were two candidates, Aiderman Parker and Alderman Jackson. Each received ten votes. Aiderman Parker was the former Lord Mayor. It is now believed that the Government will take the matter in hand. COMPANIES’ BILL. ’ SYDNEY, December IS. The new Companies’ Bill, to be introduced in the New South Wales Parliament to-morrow, follows the lines of British and New Zealand legislation. It gives ample protection to the public when seeking investments, and controls the prospectuses and financial arrangements of the companies, and demands standard of efficiency in administration, and restricts or nrohib its shareha wking. CHRISTMAS GIFT. MELBOURNE, December 18. Sir MacPherson Robertson, the donor of the Air Race prizes, said that he was proud and glad to be able to make a personal Christmas present, as one citizen, to fellow citizens in distress. He has asked that money be distributed, before Christmas, to those most in need. The money will be sent, to responsible local authorities without delay. The amount given is three thousand guineas. It is as a. personal Christmas gift for the recent flood sufferers.

TRADE WITH GERMANY. MELBOURNE, December 18. The Federal Cabinet takes a gloomy view of the trade position as between Australia and Germany. It sees no hope cf any arrangement by which Germany will be able to participate in the current wool sales. Sir Henry Gullet, the Minister directing trade treaties, said that a serious obstacle to a trade agreement is that Germany is on the gold standard. It would require enormous tariff concessions to enable her to export any goods to Australia, while the bujk of the goods she could’ export would compete with Australian or British goods.