AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19531, 14 July 1925, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TOLL OF THE MOTOR. TRAGEDIES DURING WEEK-END. Pre» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 13. The usual week-end motoring tragedies took place. A oar, racing to catch a city train, ran over and killed a man and injured two girls. Another car, with seven people on board, left a road in the suburbs and somersaulted thrice. Three persons were badly injured. The petrol tank of a city motor bus exploded. The bus was soon a mass of flames. One of the only two passengers was severely burned and was taken to hospital. AUSTRALIAN HARBOURS. SIR GEORGE BUCHANAN’S ADVICE. HOBART, July 13. Sir George Buchanan, harbour expert, who has completed an inspection of Australian harbours, says that there are too .many small ports stretching down the Australian coast, many of which have not been finished. It should be decided definitely what were to be the ports of the country, then they should be developed independently of political pull. QUARRYMEN RESUME WORK. SYDNEY, July 13. The quaarymen on strike at the r Portland Company’s cement works have decided to resume to-day. A conciliation committee was appointed to arrange with the heads of the company to arbitrate on the cause of the trouble. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. PERTH, July 13. The total revenue for the financial year ended June 30 was £8,341,446, and the expenditure £8,440,504. The deficit is the lowest since 1911.