COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS.

FOOD RATIONS FOR MINERS.

POLICE DISTRIBUTING RELIEF.

A LIBERAL HANS-OUT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.! (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. . As a result of the coal strike distribution orders for rations have commenced in the Lithgow district. The police are the authority who will issue orders to those in distress. A week's ration for an unmarried man are three loaves of bread, 31b of meat, 4oz of tea, lib of sugar, 12oz of jam, lib condensed milk, and Jib butter.. In the case of married people the quantities are increased in proportion to the size of the family, provision being made for a family up to ten members. (A. and N.Z.) BUSHRANGER WANTED. HOLD-UP IN NSW. (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Although many search parties are scouring the district around the township of Collector for the armed man who fired at a traveller yesterday and subsequently at a policeman, the bullet passing through a sleeve, no trace of him has been found. The Inspector of Police in charge of the search, said he had formed certain opinions which might lead to strange developments.— (A. and N.Z.) BUILDING TRADES. MEN'S NEW DEMANDS. MELBOURNE, June 7. A campaign for a forty-hour week has been launched by the building trades, which also claim £8 weekly for a forty-hour week, twelve days' holiday yearly in addition to all public holidays, two hours off, or payment for same, when a man is discharged, to enable him to sharpen his tools. COALMINES DISPUTE. SYDNEY, June 7. The Federal executive of the Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association has decided to have nothing more to do with the Coal Tribunal. The executive states that it will shortly take proceedings in the High Court to test.the validity of the Hibble award. Several mills at the Broken Hill Proprietary steel works have been closed owing to the strike. This has rendered idle 500 employees.

Supplies of coal for other parts of the works, where 3000 workers are employed, will last only another fortnight.— (A. and N.Z.)