AUSTRALIAN NEWS
The Federal Government, in co-pera-tiou with the. Council tor Scientific and Industrial Research, has planned the carrying -out. of intensive research work to ascertain the total gold resources of Australia. In Glenferrie road, Kooyong. Melhorn tie, a blind man was killed and a blind woman was seriously injured when they were struck by an electric tram. An elderly woman who was leading them was also injured. « The \YI lent Growers’ Association is to urge the Federal Government to take an immediate ballot of Australian growers to establish a pool, and to increase this season's grant of £4,000,000 recommended by the commission. A cartoon relating to tho air race, which was to appear in London Punch last Wednesday, is ( published in that dav’s Sydney Morning Herald. It was brought* to Melbourne by Messrs. Scott ami Black, and transmitted from there to Sydney by pietuvegram.
The Bishop of Carpentaria states that ■steps should he taken to prevent poaehing by foreigners in northern waters. Unless the Government took action, lie added, the trncims industry would be threatened with extinction. The Premier of Queensland is to raise the question of providing adequate ■ oastguard services at tlie next Premiers’ Conference. Started at Geelong hv a group of young men in 1939, tin- Apex Club movement has now extended to three States—Victoria,,New South Wales and Tasmania. The object of the movement is to promote the ideal of service as the basis of all worthy enterprise, and generally foster a better standard of citizenship. Having covered nearly 13,000 rtiilcs in North Australia in 143‘flying hours, the ne.rinl survey pally returned to Sydney : last week. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 11
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