AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BROKEN HILL'S MUSICIANS. IMPORTED-JAZZ BANDS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. V BROKEN HELL, June 9. The Palais de Dame, at Broken Hill, will ?lose its doors on Saturday next, unless the Musicians' Union reconsiders : its decision. Jeacle's Jazz Band has been supplying the dancers of the town with music foi same time, but the Musicians' Union has decreed that only local players are to be employed. The manager of the dance hall " is emphatic that local , musicians cannot give him the type ol ' jazz that he and his patrons require, and unless he can employ Jeacle s, or - some other imported band, he will close ' the hall. t . The band; playing at a concert last night, was given an enthusiastic re ception, which was taken as a demonstration of public feeling in its favor. DISASTROUS CORROSION. IX UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC CABLES. ' SYDNEY, June 4. Huge expense will be occasioned to Sydney City Council by a mysterious " corrosion that has -manifested itself in underground electric cables. The first section of corroded cable taken up will cost £1255 to replace, and many other sections will have to be scrapped. ;■■■,■: ';■ The use of a certain brand of petroieum pitdt in the wooden troughs in which the cables are sunk is thought by the general manager of the electricity department, Mr. Forbes Mackay, to have caused the damage. "A great quantity of the compound has been used in the past." he says, in a report to the council, "and it seems that all the cable laid in this compound must he lifted, and a great, part of it scrapped. Aldermen are unlikely to regard this new disaster with equanimity, for a re port to b e presented at the same time shows the electricity department to have lost £50,000 on its operations over the first quarter of this year. WATERSIDERS "GO SLOW" AT DARWIN. SYDNEY, June 4. The Darwin wharf-laborers, according 'to advice received in Sydney, have resumed "go slow"' tactics, and the steamer Mangola, which is discharging a quantity of railway material, is For the first two days the rate of working was maintained at 144 tons per hatch per hour, but after a stopwork meeting this has been reduced to nine tons per hour. The pay rate is 4s. per hour. GAMBLING RAID IN PERTH. PERTH~(W.A.), June 7. Fifty men were taken in a fleet of motor cars to the Perth lock-up on Saturday, charged with having been gaming in a tobacconist's shop in the city, of w-hich James Dougall was deemed the proprietor. The raid caused some excitement, but most of the captured men took the incident good naturedly. Bail was speedily forthcoming. VERGER BREAKS BOTH LEGS. MELBOURNE, June 9. • Two brooms' left in the aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral were responsible for v George Walters, 50, a verger, of Bligh street, Brumnvick, breaking both ins To-day he was walking down the aisle when he stumbled over one broom and then over the other. Although he was unable to rise after his fall, he did not know that he had broken his legs until he was taken to Melbourne Hospital, where he is in a serious condition.