AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS. CiBXiB—PBESB ASSOCIATION--COPTBIRF' SYDNEY, Oct. 3. Though no Australasian boxing championships u ere held this year owing to the 1923 agreement between Australia and" New Zealand terminating, officials controlling the Australian championships are confident they will be revived next year. • SHIPPING. NEWCASTLE, Oct. 3. Arrived Kaimanawa and Waitomo, from New Zealand. MINISTERIAL EXPENSES. BRISBANE, Oct, 3. The list of Ministerial travelling expenses for the year 1923-24, tabled in the Assembly, shows that the total travelling expenses of all Ministers, excluding the cost of the trips of Messrs Theodore and Jones to England, was £5159. Air Theodore’s visit to America and England cost £2956, and Mr Jones’ £1442, WORLD’S SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. „ SYDNEY, Oct. 3. ' Still another complication has arisen regarding ‘ the world’s sculling championship. Goodsell lodged a deposit for the race yesterday, but it appears that MeDevitt posted a deposit to Paddon on September 29 and therefore he claims the first, race with Paddon or his forfeit, as under the rules the latter, cannot, retire. It. is considered unlikely that Paddon will again contest, the title. ! INCOME TAX REDUCTIONS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 3. Thelncome Tax Reductions Bill has passed both Houses. CAPTAIN’S QERTIFTCVTE' SUSPENDED. SYDNEY, Got. 3. The Marine Board suspended the master’s certificate of Captain Grimstone for two years from August 28, the date when the ferry steamer Kareela crashed into a wharf.