AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PIIEFENENCE TO WATERSIDERS

VICTORIAN REGULATIONS TO BE TESTED.

(U.P.A. by ETec. Tel. Copyright! MELBOURNE. Jan 3.

The validity of regulations granting preference to members of the Waterside Workers’-Federation is being tested at law.

Mr. Justice Starke grafted, an application by the shipowners for an injunction to restrain the Federal Ministry from enforcing the regulations. Tlie full court of the High Court will probably be specially constituted to hear the case next week. WHEAT GLUT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. TRUCKS CONVEY GRAIN TO TERMINUS. • '-U-P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright} SYDNEY. .Jan. 3. Oi 99 country wheat silos. 51. being full. are being rationed with trucks to convey the grain to terminals.. Within a few days silos will he obliged to refuse deliveries because the terminal storage will he completely filled. The Minister of Agriculture stated that he was negotiating with two large wheat markets for the shipment of about -500.000 bushels

VICTORIAN STATE SAVINGS BANK MAY CLOSE.

(U.P.A. bv Elec-. Tel. Copyrio-lit) MELBOURNE, jam o. A London cubic stated that the agency of the AJic-torian State Savings Bank has ‘"been instructed to refuse deposits, and this is believed tq be. a- preliminary to its closing. The general manager, Air Cooch. said 't was not intended to close the London agency, but further deposits were not wanted, as the present rate of exchange rendered the transfer of money unprofitable. .

YACHT* TRIP ACROSS TASMAN

OTMARA TO LEAVE NEXT WEEK

fU.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) MELBOURNE, Jan. 3. The yacht Qimnra. which is to race the New Zealand yacht Restless across the Tasman, leaves next Saturday for the Dominion. She will visit Sydney cn route for stores, and then will sail for Auckland, thence AAYI- -

HEAT WAVE IN QUEENSLAND

ROMA RECOBDS 110 DEGREES

(U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright)

BRISBANE. Jan. 3. Practically the whole of Queensland is in the grip of a heat wave. The maximum temperature at Brisbane was 90 degrees, but at Roma it went as high as 110 degrees.

QUEENSLAND FIRES

POST OFFICE. SHOPS AND HOTEL DESTROYED.

tU.P A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) BRISBANE. Jan. 3. The Post Office. several shops, and an hotel at Roma were destroyed bv fire.

A, station owner near Kyriuma perished when a blaze destroyed Ins home. .