AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19124, 17 December 1923, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

A BUDGET OF NEWS AND NOTES BUSSIAN LOAN PROPOSED FLOTATION IN SYDNEY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, December 14. Mr J. M. Paddeley, addressing the Labour Council on the reconstruction of Russia, said that, whether Communists or not, they must admire the effort to establish international ideas in Russia. The local committee was endeavouring to raise a £200,000 loan in Australia by means of bonds at 5 per cent, repayable in 1933, for the assistance of the Soviet. Commenting on the matter, Sir George Fuller (State Premier) denounced the proposal, asserting that it was a Bolshevik scheme t o gather monies in order to raise contributions for revolutionary propaganda. NIGHT BAKING. The Industrial Court granted a request by the master bakers that night baking be reverted to. The operatives declined to attend the Court to oppose the request, as they declared their opposition to night baking whether the Court ordered it or not. THREE MINES IDLE. As a result of minor disputes, three additional collieries have been made idle, the trouble at one mine being an objection by the men refusing to ride on the upper deck of a double-deck cage, though they have been accustomed to do it for the past nine months. CRASHED INTO A TRAIN. C. Hawkins and his wife, in a motor car, crashed into a train at Temora railway station and were killed instantly. The train was shunting at the time, and the view was obscured from Hawkins by an overhead bridge. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPLNG LINE. Mr Larkin (General Manager of the Australian State Shipping Corporation) replying to Lord Inchcape’s comments, says the Commonwealth Line will survive the existing strain as long as its competitors. Past losses were due to Australia’s ship construction activities, and not to the bona fide carrying business of the line. During 1923 the Commonwealth ships carried double as much cargo from the United Kingdom as they did in 1922. Mr Larkin regrets that the P. & O. Company is losing money, but he says the Bay steamers are paying their way. POLICE STRIKERS. MELBOURNE, December 15. The Assembly rejected a motion by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Prendegast) having for its object the re-instatement of the 635 policemen who went on strike. The strikers are gradually being accommodated in other avenues of employment. Some are acting as drivers, wharf labourers and (ram guards. WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT. MELBOURNE, December 15. The State Parliamentary session closed after the passing of a private Bill to enable women to contest Parliamentary elections. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. ADELAIDE, December 13. An official estimate shows that the wheat harvest will yield 13.63 bushels to the acre.