AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

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PRIZE FOR PORTRAIT. SYDNEY, January 21. Miss Nora Heysen, daughter of a leading Adelaide landscape painter, Hans Heysen, has been awarded the Archibald Prize; worth £450, for her portrait of Madame Elink Schuurmann. wife of the Consul-General for the Netherlands, in Sydney.

PIG-IRON DISPUTE; SYDNEY, January 20.

Port Kembla waterside workers were dismayed to-day upon learning that thirty-one rail-trucks of pig-iron aggregating 1600 tons, left their port overnight and arrived at Sydney today for shipment aboard the Broken Hill Company’s freighter, Iron King, lying at Pyrmont wharf, and consigned to Melbourne, where the wharf labourers, working under license, are expected to handle it.

THEFT CHARGE.

SYDNEY, January 21.

Application to extradite Woolcott Forbes from Bombay, was made yesterday at the Central Police Court, when considerable evidence in regard, to the affairs of the Producers and General Finance Corporation was given by the managing director, Albert Pellow, whose testimony was mainly directed to the missing scripbook and certain certificates, and his conversations with his fellow director, Woolcott Forbes, concerning their disappearance. The hearing was adjourned until Monday.