AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16450, 6 June 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

SYDNEY, June 5. A cable records the death"; 6f Hairy Roberts, the actor, and husband of Maggie Moore. \ .

MELBOURNE;'June Si r • The Superintendent of the Bank of Australasia in Melbourne has received : cable advice from London announcing the appointment of Mr. Kenneth Goscheii as. of the Rank - of • Australasia. Mr. -Goschen is also director of the Bank of England. (Received June 6, 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, June,,?. Mr. E, J. Payne, Under-Secfeitary for Labor and Industry; has been appointed"" Public Trustee, in succession to Mr, "T. W: Garrett, who is retiring.' ' '""'." Dr. Robert Dick has been appointed. . Director-General df Public Health, in succession to Dr> Armstrong", retired. . An officiail return shews the avdhage price of meat and groceries is" 56 per cent, higher at present than in" July 1914. -'. • • ?

A representative, meeting of the' i Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society-;' endorsed a proposal, for a Federal organisation to control the nut-- - ter locally and abroad, and urged.jtbei Government to, give early initiation to the policy. ' • - ',-; ,<-;' The Chief Secretary, Mr. Oakes,; gives** a hot denial to & statement allegedly ~, made by a constable in a recent Court caise thjti he was instructed- to lie in\„giving evidence. Mr. Cakes: declared ho* member of the force had ever been in-T " stmcted to lie, ;

There was a remarkable hold-up of * railway traffic near Ashfield. A motor ' lorry crashed through a fence guarding an overhead niilway bridge, and biung balanced over the line 30 feet below. Fearing; it {would overbalance, the rail--way officials stopped the J jrjiimiinig.-.01f,. trains on the main. Western line at the busiest time of the evening, for an hour till the was removed. HOBARTj June:6. The Government proposes to open a; «chool as an experiment in the education-; of mental defectives. If found a success, the scheme will be extended. PERTH, June ,6. Members of the West. .^Austivilifan-"■■> branch of the Seamen's Union decided to cease work at 11# o'clock last Might,; : |1 owing to the dismissal of six men em- » ployed on two pilot tenders. These are ■ the, only two vessels at present affected;', The Harbor Trust authorities do liot anticipate a serious disarrangement of ; harbor activities.