NEWS IN BRIEF.
WORKERS’ INSURANCE .'.CP. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT BRISBANE, Dec. A. Concerning the operations of the Unemployed /Workers Insurance Act, it was stated that 4000 names were registered at labour bureaux throughout the State as unemployed, whereof 2455 are in receipt of unemployment sustenance. The remainder are not yet eligible. The total amount of pay by the fund from September 14, 1924, to December 13, 1924, was £210.485. THE LITHGOW TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. Dec. 25. When the body of James Dwyer was exhumed an exhaustive post mortem was conducted. It is understood medical men are agreed that the head wound could have been and was selfinflicted. The body has been reinterl'ed. AUTHOR DIES IN POVERTY. LONDON, Dec. 24. The Daily Express reports that T.:W. H. Crossland, the author, died in poverty in a London tenement after a long illness. He suffered from consumption.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5
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