AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(By Telegraph—Bor Press Association,

ARCHBISHOP’S WARNING. SYDNEY, Nov. 21

Speaking at the blessing of the foundations of the now school and monastery at Manly, Archbishop Kelly said Australia was not progressing morally, and indifference to religion and what it meant could he observed. I lion' was a kind of paralysis creeping over religion in the Commonwealth, and Australia would go down socially and morally unless religion was strengthened by the accession of young girls and boys trained in its truth, generation after generation.

AG tiICULTU RA I, CENSUS SYDNEY. Nov.

Leon Ea.'talirook, representing the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome has arrived with the object of obtaining the co-operation of the Commonwealth Government in a proposed world-wide agricultural census in 1930. He will later proceed to New Zealand. Eastubrnok states the object of the census is to discover areas under cultivation of the principal crops and the amount of livestock in every country of the world, in order to determine the extent of the world’s food resources.

MELBOURNE, Nov. 22. A motor-bus accident was caused through the failure of the brakes, the bus colliding with the side of a bridge and fulilng into a gully. SHIPOWNERS MEET. MELBOURNE, Nov. 22. Representatives of the shipowners fro in the other States reach Melbourne to-morrow to confer regarding counter measures to the waterside workers’ overtime strike, SYDNEY CTTY DEBTS. SYDNEY. Nov. 22. According to a. statement presented to the City Council, its capital debt amounts to twenty-two million sterling on which it is paying £040,000 interest as against £443,000 when the labour administration took charge two and a half years ago. The Labour Party also found a surplus of £933.GOO sterling converted into a deficit of £103,000 during their term.' RAILWAY DEFICITS. SYDNEY, Nov. 22. Tn view of the continued heavy deficits in railway revenue, the Government and commissioners are considering a scheme involving increase of fares and rigidly reducing working expenses, which the forty-four hour week and increased rates ol pay abnormally added to.

THE UNEMPLOYED. (Received this day at 10.25 a.mA SYDNEY. Nov. 22. Official figures disclose that the unemployed now total 15.000. I his is generally considered due, in a largo extent, to the restrictive legislation of the late Labour Government and the had season which has thrown a large number out of work in the country districts.

Many of these came to the city only to find conditions no better than in the rural districts.

WRESTLING. SYDNEY. Nov. 22

At the Stadium at wrestling, Muller defeated Kilonis by one fall to nil in eight rounds:

STEAMER “BLACK.” SYDNEY, Nov. 22

On the grounds that the vessel had been loaded by non-union labour at tbe Electrolytic Company’s wharf, at Risden. the coal trimmers at Newcastle refused to handle the Norwegian steamer “Yarra,” which arrived For hunker supplies. The local agent refused to waste time in (deferring with the union officials to effect a settlement and ordered the vessel to continue her voyage to the Solomon Islands.

INDIAN CYCLONE. SYDNEY, Nov. 22.

Private advice from India states the vilnge of Indukurpt, in Southern Province, was wiped out by a cyclone and that cholera is raging.

41-HOUR AYEEK REFUSED. MELBOURNE, Nov. 22

On a majority judgment, the Commonealth Arbitration Court refused ail application by the Federation of Agricultural Implement and Ala-chinery and Iron AVorkers’ Association of Australia for a forty-four hour week in ngricultural implement making industry, as a reduction of the working week would injure the industry and weaken it in the face of keen overseas competition.

OVERLAPPING OF AWARDS. SYDNEY. Nov. 22

Afr Bavin is consulting the Premiers o. the respective States with the object of making joint representations to the Commonwealth Government in regard to overlapping of awards and conflicting industrial legislation. Afr Bavin has already hold a conference with Federal Alini.st.ers at which he pointed nut- that the Federal Industrial Arbitration Court control over tho railways had added £1.200.000 annually to the running costs of tiho Btato i*nilwnyls and the States had no control whatever over this court. It was: creating grave difficulties to States having two- independent and unco-ordinated authorities controlling different sections of the railway service.

Mr Bruce stated he was prepared to consider -any representations made on tho subject by the States.

NO-OVE R TIME STR TIC E. AIELBOURNE, Nov. 22. The overtime strike has already delayed a. number of vessels including tho mail steamer Alooltan. which was unable to depart on <?/>>,n.i.ile time. The Union Company steamer Knikariki was declared “black” on arrival from Risdon because she contained n cargo of zoic loaded at the Electrolytic Zinc Company’s AVorks. Risdon. by the Company’s own labour. For some years zinc has been loaded at the Company’s works by the Company’s employees, hut recently Tasmanian wharf labourers declared the work belonged to them and threatened if the cargo were loaded hv other labour, it would he declared “black.” This decision is regarded as part of the new policy of the wntersiders federation, in the adop tion of irritation tactics against shipowners, as well as the overtime strike. The Federation also threatens to declare the Commonwealth hnor Fordsdalo black, if any attempt is made t ' transfer nine from the Ivaiknriki to the Fordsdalo. A joint statement issued 'by the Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association and Oversea Shipping Representatives Association says the WatI ersiders Federation repeatedly refused to eive the Arbitration Court satisfactory guarantees that the old award would ho obeyed, in tlie event, of their plaint proceeding before the Court Oversea shipowners had held conferences with the Federation with a similar result. The men were violating the award in practically every , port of Australia and it was quite impossible for shipowners to carry on business satisfactorily under the mi tolerable conditions at- present exis - jng.

Referring to the Karariki, it is sin tod that tho zinc aboard hop is urgently required in London, and was to have been transhipped to the Fordsdalo to-day. It had been the practice for many years for the Company’s men to load zinc at Risdon. and although wntersiders several times asked the Court to order that mom hers of the Federation were entitled to this work, the Court, after full enquiries in even- case, declined to grant the application. Tiie wntersiders had now reverted to direct action, in defiance of the Court.

BRISBANE. Nov. 22. The State President of the AVatersiders Federation announced at Afclliourne that at the wntersiders conference. Queensland representatives fought for exclusion from any future overtime strike, and it was promised they would only he called into such a strike, as a last resort.