AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WAREHOUSE GUTTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, December 3. Fire gutted John Keep and Son’s hardware warehouse in the city early this morning. The damage amounts to many thou-; sands. Received December 3, 10.15 p.m. The damage at Keeps’s fire is estimated at £250,000, which is covered by insurance. Besides Broomfields three other small outbreaks in adjoining buildings were subdued. HOTELS AND INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. SYDNEY, December 3. Received December 3, 10.15 p.m. The High Court’s decision that the proclamation closing the hotels during the influenza epidemic was illegal, resulted in the withdrawal of 31 cases. CHAIR OF MEDICINE. SYDNEY, December 2. The University has created a new chair, the Professorship of Medicine, to which Dr A. E. Mills has been appointed. SUBSIDISING CHILDREN. SYDNEY, December 3. The Nationalist Party approved of the Government’s proposal to subsidise children in excess of two in any one family, and appointed a committee to prepare the scheme. AID FOR SOLDIERS’ ORPHANS. MELBOURNE, December 3. Received December 3, 10.15 p.m. The Government has approved of the scheme to provide 12,000 soldiers’ orphans with sustenance and education, involving approximately £BOO,OOO spread over 14 years, equal to an annual expenditure of £57,000, which has been computed on the basis of an average cost per head of 12/6 weekly for two years. STATE GOVERNORS. MELBOURNE, December 3. The Premier, Mr Lawson, has announced that he received a message from Lord Milner, stating that a Governor would not be appointed to Victoria for six months, pending the result of the Commonwealth convention, which will discuss the redistribution of State and Federal powers. TASMANIAN STATE STEAMERS. HOBART, December 3. The Tasmanian Government has decided to cadi war gratuity bonds. The Government is asking Parliament to authorise the purchase or construction of six steamers, at a cost of half a million.
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Southland Times, Issue 18746, 4 December 1919, Page 5
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