AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

SYDNEY’S TRAMS AND BUSES CABINET REJECTS OFFER SYDNEY, September 11. The offer to purchase, the Metropolitan trams and. buses, from, the Star® Government for £5,000,000 was. rejected by the State . Cabinet. A JOURNALIST ASSAULTED INK THROWER FINED : ■' ADELAIDE, September li. (Received Sept. 11, at 11.30 p.m.) Miss Patricia Hackett was fined £2O in the Police Court to-day, with costs (£4 4s), for unlawfully assaulting a journalist, Sidney. Frederick Downer, the victim of the ink episode. The president of the Legislative Council to-day read a letter received from Miss Hackett, expressing sincere regret to that Chamber for her behaviour.

Miss Patricia Hackett, daughter of Lady Moulden. figured in a real life drama at Parliament House. Objecting to newspaper criticism of her theatrical production, “ Caprice,” she went to Parliament House in search of the Advertiser’s reporter-critic and threw a bottle of ink at him. The bottle inflicted a gash on 1 the reporter’s forehead and the ink spilled down his .clothes. “ Now 1 think we are quits," she ejaculated. “ Ink for ink.” The reporter picked up the bottle and remarked: “Tour ink, I think." to which Miss Hackett replied: "1 think you had most of it.” Miss Hackett, who is a prominent society girl and also a barrister and solicitor, produces plays in her own theatre.

THE MONETARY SYSTEM SYDNEY. September 11. (Received Sept. 12, at 1 a.m.) The Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons), who is electioneering in the country, declared at Cowra that if the Federal Parliament desired he would have no hesitation in arranging a competent committee of investigation into the monetary system of Australia. He had no doubt that such an inquiry would demonstrate the wonderful work that had been achieved during the depression period by the Commonwealth Bank, in conjunction with the trading banks.