AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20929, 20 January 1930, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

ACCIDENTS IN NEW SOUTH j WALES. | EIGHT DEATHS WEEKLY. S | (United Press Association.) i (By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright.) | SYDNEY, January IS.; The police census figures covering death and injury by accident in New South Wales for last year are startling Eight people were killed weekly, arid over 150 injured. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. I CRUSHED BETWEEN GIRDERS. i 1 MELBOURNE, January IS. William Thomson, aged 29, a dog man had a remarkable escape from death when a girder slipped from a steel sling 100 feet up. He clung desperately to i£ The girder caught in the framework of the building after falling 30 feet, and a second girder fell on Thomson, him to the first. His mates levered the second girder from his body, and it crashed 70 feet below. Thomson was taken to the hospital suffering from an injured hip and severe shock. DECLINE OF EXPORTS. POSITION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, January 18. From 1024-25 to 1928-29 the exports of produce and merchandise from Australia fell from £159,987,124 to £140,942,(370. This serious decline is not only with overseas countries but with the dominions, and has resulted in the Minister of Markets (Mr Moloney) asking the Cabinet to establish a commercial intelligence service abroad. Officials attribute the present adverse trade balance to the fact that Australia neglected to advertise extensively overseas between 192(3 and 1928. * • 4 The export trade to New Zealand felk from £5,059,779 to £3,8(38,281, while 1 Canada’s exports to New Zealand correspondingly increased. RETRENCHMENT IN .RAILWAYS. TWO THOUSAND MEN DISMISSED. •SYDNEY, January 19. (Received Jan. 19, at 5.40 p.m.) Retrenchment in the railway services has been responsible for the retirement or dismissal of 2090 employees during the past four months. It is now announced that scores of others must go because the Government is unable to raise funds to continue its works poliev.