AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, July 25. The Government lias announced its intention of relieving the unemployment position by sending single men into the country to clear and prepare roads on land intended for closer settlement. Married men will be found work within a reasonable distance of the city. VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, July 25. Mr Prendergast’s Ministry has fallen into line with the Labour Ministries in other States in respect to the registration of State public servants in the Arbitration Court, and notice of the discontinuance of appeal against the registration of the Australian Public Servants’ Association has been given on behalf of the Ministry. The House of Representatives passed a Bill providing for compulsory voting at Federal elections. ’BUSES BEATING TRAMS. PERTH, July 25. The Government tramways showed a loss of £707 during June, the first loss for a number of years. It is attributed to competition by recently inaugurated private motor ’bus services. The Government intends to .put a limitation on competition by ’buses, which it proposes to run itself on certain routes.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RAINS BENEFIT WHEAT CROPS. SYDNEY, July 25. Good rains continue in the greater parts of the State; including the wheat areas, where they will prove of great value, to the growing crops. OBSOLETE CHARTS. SYDNEY, July 25. The warship Brisbane was towed off by the warship Marguerite. At the time of the mishap she was following a course laid down in the Admiralty charts many years ago for sailing vessels. Locally these charts are considered obsolete and unsafe, and the accident has led to a demand for a resurvey. DISPOSAL OF BABY.

SYDNEY, July 25. A young woman carrying a baby accosted a small girl in a street at Paddington and asked if her mother would like a baby. The girl replied: “Oh. yes.” The woman handed over the child, asking that it be treated kindly, and. walked away. The police' were advised and removed the 'baby te the infant welfare Cable Assn. NE TEMERE DECREE BILL. SYDNEY. Jul v 25. The Assemblv had an all-night sitting on the Ne Temere Bill. The Government, alter applying the closure, the second reading by 47 to 32 and through the committee stages. The debate was at times warm, bristling with charges and counter-charges of seotananism and ulterior motives FEDERAL BUDGET. MELBOURNE, July 25. The. Federal budget will be delivered next Thursday. It is anticipated that it will disclose a considerable relief from income tax burdens. Political prophets’ anticipations place the easement at £2,000,000.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MISCELLANEOUS. NEWCASTLE; July 25. Sailed.—Joan Craig and Hoimwood, for New Zealand MELBOURNEi. July 25. Mr. Prondorgast informed a deputation asking that inquiry be made into the recent increase in the price of broad, that one policy of the Ministry was to establish State flour mills. A board of inquiry would be set iip immediately to deal with the price: of bread. The Ministry was not going to let the price of. bread go up without publicity being given to whatever justification existed.

Following the discovery of a scull at Chelsea, a black tracker discovered the decomposed body of a woman hidden in ti-tree some distance away. ' The body had apparently been there for some months.

ADELAIDE, July 25. At the opening of the South Australian Parliament, the Governor's Sjpec-h forecasted an increase in income tax exemption, a reduction in the membership of the Assembly from forty-six to thirty-five, to be elected under a system of preferential voting and steps to be taken to create State insurance fund. The Government is considering the question of providing lesa! assistance for poor persons. All possible stens will be taken t.r> raise the standard of education and prevent overcrowding. PERTH, July 25. 1 arliament opened yesterday. The Governor’s Speech indicated that the policy of immigration and land settlement, combined witli the development ot natural resources, was G f paranjount importance. The group settlement system, which now totalled 124 units with a population of 8776, would be continued.