AUSTRALIA
[by CABLE—PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]
PIG IRON DISPUTE. SYDNEY, December 13.
The waterfront dispute over the loading of pig iron for the Far East extended to-day from the steamer Nellore to the Taiping. Wharf labourers refused to load several trucks of pig iron on the latter t vessel in spite of an appeal by their union secretary (Mr G. Millins) to do so. The Nellore will sail for China and Japan to-morrow without the pig iron.
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. SYDNEY, December 14. One hundred and fifty delegates from all parts of Australia, New Zealand, Britain and the United States, attended the first session at Sydney, of the recently formed Royal Australasian College of Physicians. At the scientific session, papers were read on a variety of specialised subjects. Professor Carmal T. Jones (Otago University) at a subsequent dinner, proposing the. toast bf the Government of the Commonwealth and States, and the Dominion of New Zealand, welcomed the foundation of the College, and complimented the Government of New South Wales on the valuable assistance it had given to the College by a grant of £25,000, towards the construction of the College headquarters at Sydney. / -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 December 1938, Page 7
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