COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 October 1928, Page 10

COMMONWEALTH NEWS.

■ AN ADVERSE! VOTE. 'United Pres® Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY. Oct. IS. In the Legislative Assembly, in committee on the Savings Bank Housing Bill, an amendment that the commissioner® cany out the whole of the legal work connected with housing in its own department was earned against the Government by 38 to 34 votes. DESTRUCTIVE HAILSTORM. SYDNEY, Oct, IS. A hailstorm in the Taree district swept a stretch of thirty miles in the Manning Valley, devastating gardens and orchards and smashing, more than a thousand windows. Magpies and other wild birds were killed by the hail, which riddled the strong hood of a taxicab, which was being punted across the river.

AVIATION CADET INJURED. MELBOURNE, Oct. 18. Cadet Woodhbuse, while practising a forced landing near Point Cook •training school, brought his aeroplane down safely in a paddock, but it struck o small stump and was badly damaged. Woodhouse was taken to hospital with a broken wrist. LOSS AT STATE MINES. BRISBANE, Oct. 18. The State mines have continued to suffer losses during the paste year and two* have been closed. The AuditorGeneral .states that if all these enterprises were dropped and'the plant sold, the nett loss to the Treasury would be over a million sterling. UNAUTHORISED SPECULATIONS PERTH, O'dt. 18. Brown Dureali Limited has secured judgment against Robert Spaveti, the company’s former Perth manager, from whom they claimed £14,343 for allegedly speculating in flour, jute bran and pollard, thereby involving the firm in considerable loss. Immediate judgment was given for £5296, plus £7449 from which defendant was entitled to dedudt any. profits made on his unauthorised transactions ... ■ • ■