Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 96, 28 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

Press Ansocirtt'qn -Oipyright. (Received 11.15 a.m.) Sydney, , August 28. On the advice of his solicitor, Mr Heaydon declined to answer a nurriber of questions asked by the coroner in connection with the, Ooqgee niys-. Hunter, professor of Anatomy at the University, gave evidence that the bones may have belonged to a woman or an effeminate man tin the vicinity of thirty, or they might belong to- a. person stil The Aberdare South Scab am collieries have resumed-, but owiqg to a dispute at the* Wallatali mine at Catherine rfill* Bay;’ .the miners struck* arid 4oO’ J ai , e idle. s Mr 1 Bruce (Premier) t>' that 1 -he would*’ make enquix ’’ cs 'regarding the Spahlingem treatment while abroad. He thought-if - flC^ on wore taken Vt would- probably be pire action. Professor Fisk, in a. second paper at the Science Congress' traced the history of wireless in Australia, stat-. irig it was one of the few countries to solve the problem of Government control. He was . now engaged in . a sclieme affording' direct’ coniirinnication with Gteat’ Britain.

Professor G. Taylbr explained the progress achieved in transmitting by radio three coloured pliites from a natural coloured phothgraph. Success depended on ’ the result' of the experiments.

Congress passed a. resolution requesting ' tiie League of Nations to give it-s best attention te the encouragement' of invention fi* for peace and progress.

. Rev., Sdgp;,' of Manila, in a pager on" Observations; regarding stahiosi. in the Pacific, said the vagaries of statics were too cflpridib Js to he overlooked and-too important to- be ignored. Night signals irom Lyons could be (read an Sydney, 10,000 miles away, with' the head phones on the table, but in the morning could not be read at all. A practical scheme of observing statics had 1 ’ been in operation in the Philippines rinc© the beginning the year. Haring -the discussion on the characteristics of th© AustraJiian Aboriginal, Dr. Buck (New Zealand), said the Maori race wa«- eager to co-oper-ate in anthropological research regarding themselves. He suggested that' an * agreement be' reached as to what measurements should be made on skulls, many whereof could be examined in the Maori burial places, /but could not be removed.

A paper by Mr Maiden, the New South Wales Government botanist, on Re-afforestation, stated that the native forests in Hawaii were dying at an alarming rate, jeopardising the (Water supply, in some areas. Introduced trees were being utilised to reafforest, particularly 'the Australian fig. trees. These, however, produced no seeds untfj- the wasp was introduced. Since the insect had established 'itself, plenty of seed had been available. Large quantities were being scattered'by aeroplanes.