Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 4 May 1938, page 20


BRIEF ITEMS law

THE NEWS

MIAMI Tuesday A A mass. meeting of the (high fees of 1\shr1iIs News-Mr M«hnnl«i<l lion works which as a result

( a strike of plie«««oikers liar i err 1 seen since His last three weeks of the ii of dr dried kills afternoon to seek a son

fit in with the management on terms as it swept in on stock

( items must pairs socks now has a j means of their own The first number of the I me and which is called Caterina;

is a pretty miss exhibition souvenir still a special supplement of eight pages The lost all in front rolled by the Viol ulna Chamber of Catering Industries

In the IMstrld ( mart yesterday a man was i linked with having classed the In Tel section of Collins and Elizabeth h street come up to an automatic signal He said that he had not wanted the signal but had followed a tram Mr Freeman PM

They are always. doing that Dent ( 1 loss trials follow the signals in future The man was lined a

(good progress is being made in the feet ion or tin three passengers are still n and limited at Essendon for Australian National Airways Pty Ltd The managing, director Captain Ivan Holyman stated yesterday that it was proposed to hold an official opening of the new building about July 1 but no definite date would be fixed until it was known when the building would be ready and the furnishings rain

plete the building with equipment will cost about 3 22,000

During the month of April the life Home and Animal Hospital Langford

street North Melbourne received 408 dec SS cars 2 horses 3 birds and a cow for treatment. In addition to the above 1 108 dairies and ents were brought to the home making a total of 1 777 treatments

The Spirit of Progress was It minutes late in reaching Melbourne testes day morning It left Albury IS minutes late

The delay was caused by engine trouble to the New South Wales express which, lost 65 minutes between Sydney and Gnu!

burn but made up half an hour on the run to Albury

At a price equal to £15 1 i foot C intri 432 St Kilda load was sold at auction yesterday for £5 125 The property is in the west side of St Kilda road oppose Toorak road and comprises a large old two-storied house on land 60ft by 150ft The auctioneers in conjunction I.. Gard net and Lang Pty Ltd and Anders in and Hickling sold under Instructions from the trustees of the estate of the late Mrs. C B Black

Two paralysis cases were reported to the Henry h Department yesterday makins I his" total of cases 2 666 since the outbreak There were Girl aged 12 years Casterton girl aged five years Coleraine

William Wanders aged 19 years of Bourke street Braybrook received a possible

fracture of the skull when he tripp d over a dog on the footpath near his home yesterday He was admitted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

The body of an unidentified man was found being in front of a small dug out on the south bank of the Yarra River near the Punt road bridge yesterday morning A post-mortem examination of the body will be made at the City Morgue to-day

Because Melbourne presents many difficulties

as a production centre New Era Films Ltd has decided to complete its current picture Show Business in Sydney where the technical headquarters will be permanently located Mr A R Harwood the director of productions said that as there were no suitable laboratories in Melbourne for the processing of the company's film nil rushes had to be sent to Sydney thereby causing costly delays The company had also found it impossible to obtain locally fully qualified

studio technicians

When two children from Mildura who are spending holidays in Melbourne were play ing on the beach at Albert Park near Kerferd-road yesterday afternoon they opened a newspaper parcel which had been buried in the sand and found that it contained the headless body of a baby The baby was a newly born female child and had been wrapped in a copy of a newspaper published last Saturday The head was found later In another parcel beside the body Detective A Wightman of the South Melbourne division of the Criminal his castigation Branch is hidestigating

In April the A Victorian Society for the Protection of Animals investigated 202 cases of 111 treatment or neglect of animals There were three prosecutions the fines and costs amounting to £10/10/

Clothing for both adults and children is urgently required by the State Relief Committee Blankets bed linen and other domestic articles are also wanted Those desiring to help may either telephone Central 1214 or 1215 for a motor-truck to collect goods or write to the Secretary State Relief Committee 613

Bourke street Melbourne

CANBERRA Tuesday - The Imperial authorities appreciate the importance of adequate supplies of wool being available to meet the requirements of the United Kingdom in a national emergency and have agreed to measures to achieve that objective This statement was made in the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) In reply to Mr Collins UCP NSW) who had asked that Federal Ministers on their arrival in London should discuss with the British Government the advisability of providing for the storage of adequate supplies of wool in the United Kingdom

SYDNEY Tuesday - Sydney Aubrey Maddocks aged 57 years who was sent." tenced to 18 months imprisonment on April 9 1937 for a serious offence is due to be discharged from the Goulburn Gaol on Friday but the actual time is left W the discretion of the gaol governor At the time of his conviction he was commissioner of Road Transport in New South

Wales

AUCKLAND (N Z ) Tuesday - Count Felix von Luckner the former German sea raider and his wife sailed for Sydney to-day on the yacht Seeteufel As the yacht drew away Count von Luckner personally lowered the swastika flag at the

mainmast in salute