AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18068, 20 April 1933, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

An extensive scheme of land settlement. covering many parts of the State, is under consideration hy the Queensland Government. A committee, which inquired into the ' Brisbane milk supply, suggested the appointment of a control board, which would fix prices. . At Mundubbera (Q.) a woman was ! shot dead in her homo, and her husband, who had been arrested, died of heart disease in gaol. At Ballarat Patrick Slieedy was sentenced to death for the murder of Winifred Brooks at an hotel last December. A child who had wandered into the bush in Victoria, and for whom 300 people were searching, was found uninjured. ’ l The floods in the Hawkeshury River ; district damaged farms and marke t gardens to the extent of thousands of pounds. A callous motorist, alter killiim outright a motor-cyclist in ..Dandenong road, Spring Vale, drove on, leaving his dead victim lying in the gutter. A galena find is reported from North Mount Farrell, which is believed, to he the most important discovery ni Tas--1 innnian for the past 30 years. It was stated in the Federal Arbitration Court that the New Booth Wales railways deficit for the current your would probably amount to £3,493.800. At the auction sales of beef cattle at the Royal Show, only animals of outstanding quality were in demand, the highest price being 340 guineas. [ Beer has been declared "bljick” in tile Newcastle district. Pickets are on duty outside all local hotels, and take the

names of all unionists who defy the boycott. The names are then referred to the organisations to which the drinkers belong for purposes of discipline. The Road Transport Commissioner says the loss on the Sydney trams this year will be under £200,000. compared with £700.000 in 1931.