AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS

The motor freighter Port Fairy, with a wool cargo, made a new record for the run from Sydney to Dunkirk—--32 days 45 minutes. Mr. W. M. Hughes will unveil on November 23 the Port Said memorial, which has been slapped from London by the Largs Bay. In an addrbss, Dr. ,T. S. Purdy said ; that last year’s statistics showed Sydney to be the healthiest of the world 's large cities. j Two men wore killed and seven in- • jurcd when a motor truck skidded and (overturned at Clayton, Victoria. ( A report from California itnHv; that •a shipment of Australian oranges and lemons to Vancouver arrived in excellent condition. j Fired from a machine gun, a stray ,bu 1 lot pierced the lung of a marker at Williamstown (Vic.) rifle range, j The Htnto Ministry estimates that it has effected a saving of £s>-d,OOO a 'year by preventing dole relief imposiI lion. ) A big wheat harvest 'is predicted by Victorian experts as the result of the general rains this week. Wheat crops in , the Mallec tied Wimmera are described I as magnificent. I The New South Wales Government I lias under consideration a scheme for [the quarterly payments of motor registration, fees instead of annually. I It is expected that the takings at 'the Government House garden fete, Sydney, in aid of the Bush Nursing Association will reach approximately £(>000. ! During Christmas week the liner Strathaird will leave Syuuey on a sixdays’ cruise to Norfolk Island and return. I In her action for £3OOO damages for alleged libel against Truth and Sportsman, Limited, Augusta Walton Smith was awarded Id. j Following the mysterious mortality among stock on a farm at Scone, a well-known resident has been arrested. In granting Senator Dunn (Vic.) a divorce, the judge ordered that he should pay his wife £l3O a year as long as he remained a senator and £1 5s a week afterwards. The dismissal of nearly 100 employees from a millinery factory in Melbourne is n result of the lowering of, import duties is reported. A rule was adopted bv the V.K.C. prohibiting women from riding, either as professionals, amateurs or owners, at any registered race meeting. Australian films have been shown with more than ordinary success throughout the Commonwealth. Last year three were produced at a cost of £50,000. The director is on his way to London to arrange distribution i throughout Great. Britain. The tourist season in North Queensland which has just closed has been unusually busy. The special tourist tours arranged by (he shipping companies have been freely patronised by considerable numbers from other States and other countries. 1 The Now South Wales Minister for Health told the Millions Club that £1,500,000 would be needed this year to meet the demands of the hospitals. The lottery, he said, was expected to yield £600,000, and a special tax miglit be required to make up the balance.