AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19013, 8 November 1923, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

•» THE MEDICAL CONFERENCES. SECURING GREATER CONTINUITY. Prmi A»»ooiation —By T*lejjrapb—Copyrighl SYDNEY, November 7. Dr H. Lindo Ferguson, in commenting on the work of the Medical Congress, said that the absence hitherto of an organisation for carrying out the recommendations of previous medical congresses and Keeping them under the notice of the different Governments had tended to weaken the effects which should be produced. It was felt desirable that a continuous organisation, such as the British Medical Association, whose activities were constant rather than spasmodic, would prove more successful ; hence the inauguration of a new series of conferences under the auspices of that body. CANCER CAMPAIGN INAUGURATED. SYDNEY, November 7. The Senate of the University has launched a cancer campaign for New South Wales, which aims primarily at the establishment of a cancer institute for research and cognate work bearing on the scourge. It is estimated that £IOO,OOO will be required. GAS IN BROKEN HILL MINE. SYDNEY”, November 7. It is reported from Broken Hill that a big fall of ground occurred in the Central mine on Sunday, thus forcing gas into the South mine. A number of the miners, on finishing their shifts yesterday, complained of headaches, which, it is believed, were due to gas. MINING STRIKE ENDS. i SYDNEY, November 6. Work has been resumed in the Richmond Main (northern fields) and the Metropolitan (southern) mines, which were rendered idle through a strike.