THE COMMONWEALTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16423, 11 May 1921, Page 7

THE COMMONWEALTH.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. B.v Tel-agraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 11, 11.15 -a.m.) FORTY-FOUR HOUR WEEK EXTENDED. SYDNEY, May 11. Mr Justice Beeby has extended the forty-four hour week to the building, Bawinilling, iron, shipbuilding and starch trades, and also recommended it Lor the dressmaking and whitoworkers’ occupations, MODERN CHRISTIANITY. Opening the session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the Rev Mr Edwards, the new Moderator, j.n his inaugural address, strongly pleaded for a more liberal theology to meet present-day needs. He declared that our Gospel was the gospel of life and our doctrine must not be a repetition. of forms of expression that were made what they are by controvorsaries and by questions once living, but nowdead. _ If organised Christianity was to retain its hold upon educated people and to regain the hold it had lost, it must have a theology which, when challenged. could prove itself to be advancing with human knowledge and the development of moral conscientiousHEAVY RAIN. There has been very heavy rain for tho past two days in‘the city, and it still continues- A large part of the State is participating. W.C.T.U. AND SACRAMENTAL WINE. MELBOURNE, May 11. At a conference of tho Women’s Christian Temperance Union the possible dangers of the use of fermented wino for sacramental purposes was raised. Archdeacon Hindlev deprecated tho discussion as it might cause a division among the friends of temperance. He declared that the general experience of clergymen in all parts of the world was that the danger from tho use of fermented wine at communion was purely imaginary. POSSIBILITY OF MAKING NEWSPRINT. At the conference of the Australian Provincial Press Association, assemblies of newsprint made from Australian woods were shown. They were of excellent quality and much impressed tho delegates, who decided to ask the Federal Government to assist more liberally in continuing tests with" a view to the establishment of the news--1 print industry.