AUSTRALIA
[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] SHEARERS’ AWARD SYDNEY, June 30. Reports from the pastoral areas leave no doubt that the shearing dispute has ended, and that work is proceeding Smoothly at all sheds on the new award rates. STOWAWAYS SYDNEY, June 30. Two stowaways who arrived here yesterday by the Canadian Britisher, are to be returned to New Zealand. They will go aboard the Canadian Britisher. They are being sent because they are unable to prove that they are Australians. One is definitely a New Zealander, and the other is an Englishman who has resided in New Zealand for ten years.
TANKER AGROUND BRISBANE, June 30. The Swedish tanker, Balaklava, of 8035 tons, is aground on a reef in the Princess Cljarlotte Bay, 120 miles north of Cooktown. The vessel is bound for Sydney with a full cargo of oil. She is expected to be refloated at high tide to-night. BRISBANE, July 1. ' Attempts failed to refloat the tanker Balaklava. LOTTERY OFFICIAL’S SUICIDE. SYDNEY, June 30. On May 30, al night, the body of a lottery official, Alexander Collins, was recovered from the harbour near Clifton Gardens, a North Shore suburb. It appeared to have been in the water for some time. To-day, after an inquiry into the death of Collins, the Coroner returned a verdict of death due to a bullet wound in the head, self-inflicted. The i Coroner, added that he was utterly unable, from the evidence, to form any opinion in regard to the motive for Collins’ suicide. His affairs were in thorough order. » . ’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 July 1936, Page 7
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