AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11026, 24 December 1928, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

IMPORTANT BANKRUPTCY JUDGMENT. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 22. J ustice Long-Innes gave a ruling in the Bankruptcy Court that under the Defamation Act plaintiff who obtained judgment against another person could keep that person in prison for twelve months. There was no power to release judgment debtor except at the will of judgment creditor. A GLOOMY XMAS. Although there were 500 unemployed miners in the Lithgow district, who were willing to work, the miners’ Federation rejected the offer of the Australian Iron and Steel Company to give temporary employment to at least 100 of these men. The secretary of the federation said that the proposal could not be entertained. as it would involve a breach of union principles. CHURCHES AND LABOUR, A meeting of the heads of all the churches unanimously resolved to mak e Sunday, February 17th, ail industrial Sunday, when special reference to the need of unity in Australian industries will be made in the churches. Tli e movement may be followed by other States. BLACKS DYING OUT. PERTH, December 22. Tlie report of the chief protector of aborigines for the year stated that the estimate of the native population of the State numbered 25,513, a decrease of only 176 on the previous year. Reports that leprosy and other diseases are prevalent among the natives were not substantiated by investigations.