AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1925, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE Wool' CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, June 25 The joint meeting of the Australian Wool Growers’ Council and the Na. tional Council of the M'ool Selling Brokers decided to resume the wool sales in Australia on July 30, when 120,000 bales will be offered. A similar number will be offered in August. ANOTHER BUILDING COLLAPSE. MELBOURNE, June 25. Another building collapsed in the heart of the city. Fortunately there were no casualties. The building was a three.storey brick structure, occupied by A. IL Enticott and Company in Little Bourke Street. Twenty persons were employed there. The first sign yas when several windows fell. out. The framework of the building I hen coni, nieneed to sway. All the occupants made a dash for safety. Ten seconds later the side wall subsided on to a vacant allotment, which was being excavated for a new build, ing. The floors, one after another, fell in. Several of the large crowd ot onlookers were struck by flying m’icks. N.S.W. FLOODS. SYDNEY. June 2fi. |v the ILiwkesbiirv district much ilamage lias la i n caiised by landslides as the waters rapidly recede. The rl-eeks at Buck aii-l Mitlngong are rlining bankers. Traffii- is interrupted. A’'nm'.i wlm was washed off bis horse xvhilc «'i<>s>ing Kangaroo river, xxas drowned. The position at Forbes is easier. The water is now concentrating into rn enormous volume < m the wax* through 11n* Jemalong distri-.-l. where the hilly country prevents its spread. The land will be deeply submerged. H is ex-pert»*d that the flood will reach (’ondobolin early next week. It is still raiding. BUILDING COLLAPSE INQUIRY MELBOI'RNE. June 2(». At the inquiry into the collapse of the British Tobacco ('ov’s. building, Robert I’oan, Engineer of 'Fests and in charge of the Victorian Railways' lab rat >ry, said that tests taken from the buildi’iig after the collapse showed the ratio varied from 1t).5 to 15.7 of sand and stone to one of cement. whereas Hie specifications provided for one of <-ement to two of sand amt four of stc”!e. George Albert Royal. clerk of works at llm job, said I hat beams tli i i ty-four feet in length and 74 in< lies tlii<-k, provided for in (Im Stewart Street walls, were not jmt in (he second, third and fourth floors-.