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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 30 October 1911, Page 6

OUTBREAKS OF IRISH BLIGHT. • (Received 30, 8.5 a.m.) Sydney, October 30. Out of a consignment of twelve hundred bags of Clarence River potatoes sent, to Brisbane, five hundred were condemned, being affected with Irish blight. Outbreaks are reported in other districts. YOUNG BAND’S' SUCCESS. (Received 30, 9.40 a.m.) Melbourne, October 30. At the Ballarat band contests St. Augustine’s Orphanage boys won the A Grade competition, and the Australasian championship. A remarkable feature is that the average age of the winners is fourteen, the youngest being eleven and - the oldest twenty-one. The Roselle Band, Sydney, was second. < HENLEY-ON-YARRA. Melbourne, October 30. It is estimated that over a hundred thousand attended Henley day on the Yayra;- ■ // MINISTERS TO REDUCE THEIR SALARIES. Perth, October. 30. It is stated that one of the first acts of the new Ministers will be to reduce their salaries, the Premier to twelve hundred and his colleagues to a thousand'each. AN EMPLOYERS’ FIGHTING FUND. Perth, October 30. A scheme is afoot to form an employers’ defence association, with a capital of £IOO,OOO. The secretary of the Labour Federation declares that the object is to fight organised labour, which could not combat the employers by forming a united fund of their own.