AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1937, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BETTING LATV. (Australian Press Association). BRISBANE, June B.^ 1 It is reported that new Queensland. ‘ laws against ' starting price betting, 5 whicn makes off-the-coursc betting an ’ •'offence- punishable by heavy fines and imprisonment, have entirely killed . hotel betting, have reduced the number of betting shops from seven hundred to forty and have increased the racecourse attendance by 250 per cent, an AIR CRASH ’ INTO SUBURBAN CHURCH i ___ : MELBOURNE, June 9, 5 In a dense fag an aeroplane * crashed into a suburban church this evening after cruising for an hour over the city seeking a landing. , 3 The machine With two members of the Victorian Flying School,, Messrs P. McAlis'fef ’' and N. Sloan, was returning frohi 'Bendigo. Approaching ’ s tliri cifyVthoVWntered the fog and lost their" bearings. They ffew around ‘sbekihg an aerodrome, } and. running short of petrol, came ’ , low' seeking an emergency tend- ! ing. . ' ■' : ■ ■ The aeroplane crashed Into the church. The maeftfine .was wrecked and the church slightly damaged. Sloan was slightly injured and McAlister was unhurt. 1 Melbourne has been shrouded in dense fog for six nights in succession, causing many traffic accidents and delays to shipping and trains. BROKER’S' DEFICIENCY MELBOURNE, June 9. Mr Robert Gall, solicitor, submitted an affidavit in the Practice Court, today, stating that he had been inform- ; ed by Messrs Ward (2) and Cunven, ; trading ’as' Ward and Company, sharebrokers, whose suspension was cabled I last night that they were in dept to ■ the extent of £50,000 in excess of ■ their assets. Mr Gall added that he believed that the deficiency was much greater. Mr Justice McFarlan granted Mr Gall’s application for an interim injunction, restraining Ward and Company from paring- with certain share 1 certificates and transfers for eight' days. : | AUSTRALIAN WOOL SYDNEY, June 10. The Woolgrowcrs’ Council of Aus- 1 trallsi announce the Australian wool J clip for the 1937-38 season is expect- . , ed- to he 3,146,000 bales, consisting oi jB2 per cent merino, and 18 per cent i , crossbred. Of the total 2,860,000 bales will be offered for auction throughout the Commonwealth. An estimated average not weight of 3001 b per bale, it is expected the new clip will show a ■ total weight of 943,800,0001 hs. The j selling season opens in Sydney on J August 30, and thence at Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne. The quantity of wool offering before Christmas w\l not exceed i,500,000 bales. STATEMENT RIDICULED f SYDNEY, June 10. Customs officers at Sydney ridicule a suggestion by the Hangchow Chief of Police, cabled last night, that innocent. Chinese girls and boys are being sold J into slavery and sent to South Africa | and to Australia. The Customs Officers say that the | Chinese girls and women entering Aus-1; tralia could be numbered on one hand. j All could be traced by photographs |■] and finger prints. ,