AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18077, 29 April 1922, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

STATE BRICK WORK'S LOSSES. THE PLANT TO BE SOLD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Heed. 5.5 D-m-J SYDNEY. Apnl 28. Sir Thomas Henley, Minister for Works, announced that the Government has decided to dispose of the State lime and brick works at Botany by tender or sale. The capital cost was £57.251, and the ■ act umulated losses amounted to £19,827. LOSSES ON IBBIGATION SCHEH3. j OVER £1.000,000 INVOLVED. SYDNEY. April 28. Offiiers of the Auditor-General's Department, reporting on the Murrambidgee irrigation areas, state that the loss on the areas to date totals £1,498,951. The loss for the past year was £417,599, and the trading loss, including interest for the same period, £163,254. The losses are described as calamitous, and the question is raised whether the State has adequate security for the vast sums involved. MAJORITY LABOUB PAETY, SYDNEY, April 28. The Majority Labour Party has drafted a tentative policy, including the following 1 planks;— Complete Australian self-govern- : ment as a British community, with one I sovereign Parliament for the Common- ; wealth: ,*boiition of State Parliaments and Governors: amalgamation of all duplicated departments; grouping of Federal electorates according to the population quota, means of communication and community of interests. CONTINUANCE OP BAIN. ißecd. 5.5 p.m.", SYDNEY. April 28. Weather reports indicate the continuance of rain in the country districts, with extension further north and north-west. It is believed the storm is losing energy. POSTPONEMENT OP TENNIS. Seed. U. 30 p.m., SYDNEY. April 28. Heavy rain caused postponement of the. tennis tournament till Saturday. The N'ew Zealanders play in the championships on Monday. ANOTHEB PLAGUE PATIENT. Reed. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY. April 3. Another case of pi ague is reported at Oatley. The patient is a city waitress. Another plague rat his been discovered in Alexandria. SUPERTAX ON INCOMES. SYDNEY. Apnl 28. The Legislative Council passed the Super Tax on Incomes Bill through all stages. THE OHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MELBOURNE. April 28. Davis (New Zealand) beat Steele (Victoria) in the eleventh round of the ohess tournament. TESTIMONIAL GRANT ILLEGAL. SYDNEY. April 28, A boy in Sydney was recently killed in attempting to stop a runaway horse. Members of the City Council desired to vote £50 to his relatives in recognition of his heroic action, but the city solicitor ruled that the councd had no power jto vote money for such a purpose. If j the boy had been killed accidentally a claim for compensation would have held.