AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23320, 12 October 1937, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

DIRECTORS OF LABOUR PAPER DISPUTE TAKEN TO COURT SYDNEY, Oct. 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 0.15 a.m.) A long-standing dispute affecting the right of the Labour politicians, Messrs J. T. Lang and L. Beasley, prominent unionists, and Mr Culbert T. Bell to act as directors of the Labour Daily newspaper was decided to-day by Mr Justice Long-Innes in the Equity Court, when an order restraining their election as in December, 1936, was granted at the instigation of 13 unions, whose representatives successfully contested the ballot. Notice of appeal was immediately lodged on behalf of the defendants. NEW JUDGE APPOINTED SYDNEY, Oct. 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 0.30 a.m.) The Cabinet to-day appointed Mr W G. Longer Owen to the Supreme Court Bench. His father and grandfather were former judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. THE BREWERY STRIKE BRISBANE, Oct. 11. (Received Oct. 11, at 11.45 p.m.) There was a fairly general response to the call for volunteer union labour for the idle breweries, which were reopened to-day under police protection. Long lines of cars from hotels in all parts of the city and suburbs arrived and took away thousands of bottles of beer, resulting in the bottle washers joining the strikers, who are now blacklisting the names of the hotelkeepers involved. THE PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 0.15 a.m.) After a period of comparative quietness there was a high daily average of infantile paralysis cases, the total to-day reaching 500. The recent cases have been mild and all schools have now been reopened. Children accompanied by their adults are admitted to theatres, VICTORIAN ELECTIONS FINAL STATE OF PARTIES MELBOURNE, Oct. 11. (Received Oct. 12, at 0.45 a.m.) The polls were declared in most of the Victorian electorates to-day, and the final state of the parties is as follows: — United Australia .. .. 21 Country Party .. .. 20 Labour 20 Independent Labour .. 1 Independents .. .. 3 The Premier, Mr A. A. Dunstan, will carry on the Country Party administration with the support of Labour. Mr Dunstan claims that the election resulted in a mandate from the people for reform, of the Legislative Council. He intends to reintroduce the Reform Bill early in the session. Mr Dunstan said to-day that if the Council again rejected the Bill it would be a sorry day for democracy. If the democratic system of government was to prevail the will of the people must be supreme.