AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1936, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT. J FIREMAN’S FATAL INJURIES SYDNEY, July 24. • The death has occurred of Samuel Hegarty, 47, senior fireman, burnt at the fire at Surry Hills. HORSES’ RECORD JUMP. BRISBANE, July 24. A new Australian high jump record was established at Cairns, when two horses named Look Ont and Euchre, cleared Bft. I.] inches. KING GEORGE MEMORIAL. SYDNEY, July 24. The “Sun” states that the Now South Wales memorial to KingGeorge V, will take the form of a statue in the city, towards the cost of which the Government is giving £3OOO. CABLE REPAIRS. SYDNEY, July 24. The cable repair ship Recorder has returned to Sydney from Norfolk Island, where three cable ends, damaged in the recent cyclone, were repaired. The Recorder was unable to finish repairs to the emergency cable between Sydney and New Zealand because of bad weather. The Recorder will be stationed at Singapore in future.

BUILDING DISPUTE

MELBOURNE, July 25

Officials of the building trade unions threaten to call a stop-work meeting of all building workers on Monday, unless the master builders give an assurance they will not close down jobs again. There seems every likelihood that the dispute will spread next week. At present, about 1001) men are idle.

DIVER KILLED. PERTH, July 25,

K. Sakai, head diver of Gregory and Coy’s pearling fleet, lost his life when below water, near Broome. His airpipe was fouled by a whale and torn out at the coupling in the diving helmet, thus allowing water to enter the diving dress. Saki was dead when hauled aboard. This is the first fatality caused by a whale among the Broome pearling fleet.