AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19617, 22 October 1925, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

STRONG PLEA FOR MOTHERS. MISS STANLEY’S ADVOCACY. Frees Aasociatioa — By Telegraph —Copyxigbv SYDNEY, October 21. Miss Stanley, arguing in favour of better provision against maternal mortality, declared that by its criminal neglect the Commonwealth lost 640 mothers annually in childbirth. The motherhood mortality was worse than that due to cancer, and second only to tuberculosis. Miss Stanley said that Sydney University placed veterinary science on a much higher level than obstetrics. She claimed that women were entitled to claim horses’ rights for mothers, and urged the absolute need for the provision of more practical, experience for medical students and nurses. VESSEL’S DANGEROUS LIST. MELBOURNE, October 21. The Japanese freighter Fuji Maru arrived with a list of 20deg to starboard, and while the stevedores working on the wharf were trying to restore her to an even keel she heeled over to port until she made an angle of 22deg with the water. The vessel is in a perilous position, and efforts are being made to shift the cargo to starboard. A BLASTING FATALITY. SYDNEY,. October 21. John Payne, aged 35, and George Burke, aged 47, were blasting at the Bexhill railway quarry when a charge exploded prematurely, killing both men. FEDERATED MASTER BAKERS. ADELAIDE, October 21. The convention of the Federated Master Bakers’ Association of Australia and New Zealand, after considering invitations from New South Wales and New Zealand, decided to hold the next meeting in Sydney. PROTECTION OF NEWSPAPERS. SYDNEY, October 21. The Country Press Conference decided to seek an amendment of the Defamation Act to provide that the plaintiff should give security for costs equal to an amount not exceeding one-fourth of the amount of the damages claimed, in order to protect newspapers against action for defamation when the subject of the action was proved to be due to an error or omission in press telegrams. DROUGHT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, October 21. (Received Oct. 21, at 7.10 p.m.) Want of bain and drought conditions are seriously affecting the crops and pastures in many of the country districts and unless there is rain soon the prospects will be gloomy. In some places a dav of special prayers for rain is beingheld.