AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 111, 31 October 1911, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

CLEVER BOY .MUSICIANS. j By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, October 30. At the Ballarat Band Contests St. Augustine's Orphanage boys won the "A" grade competition and the Australasian championship. A remarkable fea« ture was that- the average age of the winners was fourteen years; the youngest was eleven and the oldest twentyone. The Rozelle Band, Sydney, waa •second.

EMPLOYERS COMBINING. ' " Perth, October 30. A scheme is on foot to form an Employers' Defence Association with a capital of ,€IOO,OOO. The secretary of the Labor Federation declares that its object is to fight organised labor, which could not combat employers by forming a united fund of their own. SHORTAGE OF LABOR. Sydney. October 30. The Labor Council further discussed the shortage of labor mentioned in the commission's report. The bulk of the speakers insisted that there was no shortage, and that in some instances workers were not obtainable because the ruling rates of wages were not paid.

BLIGHT IN POTATOES. Sydney, October 30. Out of a consignment of twelve hundred bags of Clarence River potatoes sent to Brisbane, five hundred were condemned as affected with Irish blight. Outbreaks are reported in other districts. HENLEY BAY. Melbourne, October 30. Tt is estimated that 100.000 attended Henley Day on the Yarra. EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA.' Sydney, October 30. Archbishop Kelly, speaking at the opening of the new presbytery, declared that the present system of education was artificial, and governed by politicians who perhaps had no proper idea of education. Catholics wanted no leader to say: "We will make as many collins as we can. to bury politicians who are against . civic justice and religious liberties."