AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1936, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, Alay 9. Over five Hundred undefended divorce eases have been disposed of in five •weeks in Sydney. This is officiallv stalled <to be a record for Uns period in Ne-w S.-uth AV-ales. Since the beginning of the year over eight bundled new petitions have been filed. ABEL AIDE. Alay 9. A Czech,, named Birger, who tried to escape from the steamer Dalcioss by leaping from the deck of the ship in mid-ocean, with a hatch-cover for a raft, yesterday burst open the door of the cabin in ■which he was being held as a prohibited immigrant and fled while the ship was lying at Fort Adelaide. Birger, who was handcuffed, has not been recaptured. NEAVCASTLE May 8. Run down by a train near Adamstown, Phyllis Wood, fifteen, was decapitated and her mother. Airs. Ada AVood. fifty-four was killed almost instantly. They were walking, along the railway line and failed to notice a train which emerged from a cutting just before it struck them. MELBOURNE Alay 8. Nearly half the school children of Victoria are attending moving picture shows at least once a week. This fact was revealed at a meeting of'the Children’s Cinema Council, when the results of the questionnaire sent to thirty-seven metropolitan and suburban State schools and twenty-three country schools were announced. The questionnaire affected about thirty thousand children, and provides a verygood guide, to film attendances by all school children. The Cancer Conference decided to invite the New Zealand Government to co-operate with holding an Austra-lian-New Zealand Cancer Congress at Canberra in 1937, -when special problems relating to cancer in the Southern Hemisphere can be discussed. SYDNEY, Alay 7. The University students of Sydney have' decided to defy the University Senate’s ban on their annual procession through the city streets, and to hold it this mouth. The Senate embargo came about some years ago, when some tableaux were adjudged obscene and unedifying. The students have obtained police permission to conduct a procession, after giving an assurance they will eliminate anything undesirable.