COMMONWEALTH CABLES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 April 1928, Page 5

COMMONWEALTH CABLES

CONSTRUCTION CAMP TRAGEDY. UNITKI) CHESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELbcTuX TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION—SYDNEY, April 27. A tragedy is reported from a railway construction camp near Wyalong. Following a quarrel, Norman Cook, aged 35, was riddled with bullets. He made- a statement before- his death. The police have .arrested a workmate on a charge of murder. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. AFFAIRS. SYDNEY, April 27. The All Australian Council of Trade Unions has reaffirmed its decision to hold aloof from the Federal Government’s industrial peace conference. The council lias decided to convene i pan-Pacific conference in Australia next year. Delegates- from China and Japan will be invited. Advice was received from Moscow that Mr. J. Garden has been elected to the. executive of the Third Internationale, which the local Communists and Mr. Garden regard as a great honour. FEDERAL FILM CENSORS’ REPORT. SYDNEY, April 27. The Commonwealth film censors, in their annual report, comment trenchantly on the vulgarity of some of the imported films. They declared that there seemed to be no generally effective attempts to introduce more refinement or to raise the literary or moral standards. During the- year 1681 films arrived in Australia from the United- States, 271 from Britain, and 199. from other countries. FATAL MOTORING ACCIDENT. MELBOURNE, April 27. A double-seater car, while speeding a.lon,tr Footscray Road, crashed into a stationary lorry. Captain Dumkenlen, master of the steamer T'almkerk, and Captain Langley, of Brighton, were killed, and Donald Hill, tile driver, had bis skull fractured. TASMANIAN FINANCES.

HOBART, April 27. The Premier, the Hon. J. A. Lyons, when delivering his Budget, said that Tasmania had a national debt of £24,000,000, with an interest bill of £1,000,000 annually, and less than forty-fivo thousand potential ratepayers to foot the bill. Hi? promised to reduce the members of the Assembly to twenty-five, and the Council to fifteen. TOUR OF PARLIAMENTARIANS, CANBERRA, April 26. The Australian branch of the Empire Parliamentarian Association agreed to accept the invitation of the Canadian branch for a visit of eight members of Federal Parliament in September. They will comprise of three Senators and five members of the House of Representatives. mttrderedTnThis bed. MELBOURNE, April 27. Murderously assaulted with an axe while sleeping in bed with his wife, Harry Hill, a Government employee at Darwin, met his death at Darwin last night. Airs. Hill was awakened by. her husband’s groaning, and found him covered with blood l from a deeply-gashed jaw, with an axe lying across his body. Other inmates of the house were unaware of the tragedy until thev heard the wife’s screams.

The police are searching for a suspected aborigine.