AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1932, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

DOLE! QUESTIONNAIRE

ARE URGED TO SIGN

(Australian Press Association; . ' ! ■ ’ ft I

SYDNEY, November 2.

A meeting of the “committee of struggle”, in Hie northern coalfields pasted / a : resolution .advising diode strikers to. sign .the questionnaire,ythe committee accusing the employed workers, the “nortlicttii miners executive, and their lackeys,” with failing to stand by the unemployed.

AN UNNERVING EARTH TREMOR.

SYDNEY, November 2;

An earth tremor, following a roar like 1 thunder, alarmed the residents of Guudagai town .a’id district. ’ Many fled from their houses.

NEW SEASON’S WHEAT

i SYDNEY, November 2.

The first of the new season’s wheat wws auctioned at Alexandria had realised 3s Ad per budieJ. It weighed 67% pounds to the bushel. - - •- •-

IMPRISONMENT FOR LARCENY

' ' ADELAIDE, October 31

< Waler Leslia Stuart, formerly Master at the Supreme Court, was sentenced .to five years hard labour for larceny of ■ Commonwealth bonds, valued at £2450,

SUBSiL l FOR SHIPPING

CANBERRA, November !

It is! understood that the Government has decided ,to grant a subsidy of £6OOO per annum, t 0 Huddart' Parker Line, for an all the year setvice between Sydney and Hobart. This will help the apple trade, which is responsible" for half a million tonnage requirements,, but is, not sufficient to meet the needs advanced by the graziers and other organisations in Tasmania. ,'

BANKS’ LOWER INTEREST

MELBOURNE, November 1. Trading banks have adopted reduced interest rates, on fixed deposits, announced by the Commonwealth Badk ■ last week namely, three months 2J per cent., six months 2f, twelve 3 two years 3£. The rate of inteest. on fixed deposits has fallen 2 per cent in the last sixteen months.

“WIZARD” SMITH LIBEL CLAIM

SYDNEY, November 1

“Wizard” Smith's £2O, libs’suit .was continued to-day. Smith denied that prior to the trials he was* so nervous that he could not hold a tea-cup. Evidence given by several New Zealand witnesses that the beach was in good condition was denied by Smith, who abo denied that any money was collected bn the beach oi at any' other place in New Zealand.

MINERS TO CONTINUE WORK

SYDNEY, November 1. i .Aggregate meetings o>f the miners at ' cls-jioclc,,. ,'Kurri, Abormain, Paxton, and , Bellßird to-say decided, an majority, to ceu.t.uue working' until ,an “al!-out” policy had been decided upon as a protest the dole questionnaire.

FATALLY INJURED IN FALL. BRISBANE, November 2. F. G. Weather’.ake, local branch manager of the Orient line, was fatally injured by falling down the b° ld of the Orontes in which butter wj ; being stowed. a