AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1936, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BODY IN WELL SYDNEY, May 7. The police arrested Francis Henry Maudlin, aged 27, near Bulli, on the south coast, to-day, and charged him with murdering Charles Dawson, whose body, as cabled yesterday, was found in a shallow well. RAILWAY VICTIMS NEWCASTLE, May 8. Run down by a train near Adamstown, Phyllis Wood, fifteen, was decapitated and her mother, Mrs. Ada Wood, fifty-four, was killed almost instantly. They were walking along the railway line and failed to notice a train which emerged from a cutting just before it struck them. CANCER CONFERENCE MELBOURNE, May 7. The Cancer Conference decided to invite the New Zealand Government to co-operate with holding an Aus-tralian-New Zealand Cancer Congress at Canberra in 1937, when special problems relating to cancer in the Southern Hemisphere can be discussed. DESTROYER SUNK. SYDNEY, May 7.

The Australian naval manoeuvres off the coast ended to-day with the sinking of an out-of-date destroyer, the Anzac, which was used as a target, 20 miles off the Heads. The cruiser Canberra and the destroyers Yarra, Waterhen, and Vendetta took part in the firing. Many direct hits were recorded from 15,000 and 13,000 yards. The Anzac finally heeled over and sank. STUDENTS’ PROCESSION. SYDNEY, May 7. The University students of Sydney have decided to defy the University Senate’s ban on their annual procession through the city streets, and to hold it this month. The Senate embargo came about some years ago, when some tableaux were adjudged obscene and unedifying. The students have obtained police permission to conduct a procession, after giving an assurance they will eliminate anything undesirable. CHILDREN AND FILMS. MELBOURNE, May 8. Nearly half the school children of Victoria are attending moving picture shows at least once a week. This fact was revealed at a meeting of the Children’s Cinema Council, when the results of the questionnaire sent to thirty-seven metropolitan and suburban State schools and twenty-three country schools were announced. The questionnaire affected about thirty thousand children, and provides a very good guide to film attendances by all school children.

WOOL LEVY. CANBERRA, May 8

The Federal Government has decided to impose a sales tax of not more than one shilling per bale on wool, to provide a research and publicity fund. The chief purpose of the fund will be to combat the menace in overseas markets of artificial wool and wool substitutes. Making the announcement, Mr Lyons said that for a beginning, the maximum of a shilling may not be collected. It might possibly be as low as sixpence. The Government proposes to collect a levy from growers, and pay it over to accredited representatives of the industry. A Wool Research and Publicity Committee will be set up and will work in association with similar New Zealand, South African, and United Kingdom organisations.