AUSTRALIAN CABLE.
SHEARER'S DEMANDS.
SYDNEY, this day.
The forthcoming Australian Workers' Union Conference will consider the shearers' agreement, including a demand for a forty-four-hour week, payment of £3 per hundred for flock sheep, double rate for rams and all stud animals, pay for shed hands to be £6 weekly and keep. Various other increases are proposed, also that existing agreements be abolished and verbal agreements substituted. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
BUTTER PRODUCTION
SYDNEY, this day. The butter production in the State in the past year decreased by 14,972,6371b compared with the previous year, but showed a satisfactory improvement in quality.—(A. and N-Z. Cable.)
GIFT SUPPIiY SHIPS.
SYDNEY, this day. Sir Joseph Cook, Minister of the Navy, has announced that Britain has presented Australia with two sloops formerly used as supply ships and valued at £100,000 each,—(A. CaHteY
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 208, 2 September 1919, Page 5
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