AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18664, 21 March 1924, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

OPERATIVE BAKERS.

REGISTRATION OP UNION. >.;

Australian and IT.Z. Cabl« Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) ."* SYUNEY, Mar. 20. A meeting of the Operative Bakers' Union appointed a committee to take the preliminary steps toward the registration of the anion.

RINDERPEST

PERTH. Mar. 20.

The rinderpest in Western Australia has been effectively eradicated. All quarantine restrictions have now been removed.

KOBE COLUERISS IDLE.

SYDNEY, Mar. 20.

Further strikes have occurred on the Northern coalfields. There are now 13 pits idle. • '"'•',"■

COMMONWEALTH LOAN

; MELBOURNE. Mar. 20.

Dr. Earle Page, Common-wealth Treasurer, states that the response to the war gratuity conversion loan has been fairly satisfactory. The date of closing has been extended, but- not fixed.

BAN ON SUNDAY GAMES.

SYDNEY. Mar. 20.

The Sydney City Council discussed the question of charges for Sunday tennis courts in public parks. An alderman stated that an'old Act still in existence forbids "the playing of games in public, places on Sundays with implements of play." The Lord Mayor thereupon ruled that the word "Sunday" in the scale of charges for tennis playing in parks must be struck out, thus leaving provision for week-day play only. A' Labour alderman protested against the tennis players being barred. A motion placing other games in a similar position will be moved.

WATER RUNNING SHORT,

SYDNEY, MaJ. 20.

•■•: Owing.to. a shortage of water the Water Board has prohibited the use of hoses for all purposes.

ACCIDENT IN BRISBANE.

BBISBANE. Mar. 20

A man who approached too near to an aeroplane, which was landing" at Rockhampton, was struck by the propeller, and his arm was severed, a