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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 7

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Latest Basic Wage Cut in New South Wales. EMPLOYERS AGAINST. (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Premier, Mr. B. S. Stevens, stated that tho Government would hot give any directions to the Industrial Commission regarding the operation of the new basic •Wage. He has directed the Public Service Board to confer with the Public Service unions, with a view to adjusting hardships that might have been created by the new basic wage! Thirteen more Sydney firms have announced that they will not reduce their employees' wages, and several councils have made the same decision.

NOTED ARTIST.

DEATH OF ANNIE SWYNNERTON (Received 11.30 a.m.) / LONDON, October 24. The death is announced of Annie L. Swynnerton, the noted sculptor. She was 87 years of age. Annie Louisa Swynnerton, who has been described as the greatest British woman artist, was born in Manchester. Early in her career she began to show the originality and detail which marked all her later work. She won in 1870 the Queen's prize for oil painting from life, and later the Prince of Wales' scholarship. For many years she lived alternately in Rome and Manchester, painting portraits of many distinguished people, which were hung in galleries all over the world. She achieved success by her painstaking methods. When she wanted a background indicative of a particular season of the year she would work,it as long as the season lasted, and then put it by for a year. One of her pictures occupied her for six successive Junes, and another required several Novembers for completion. Other paintings waited for years to enable her to secure an infrequent effect. In 1907 her painting "Oreads" was hung in the Royal Academy. It was bought by J. S. Sargent, and presented to the nation, being placed in the Tate Gallery.. So far as the Academy was concerned, there followed for her 15 years of disappointment, for everything she Bent in was rejected. Then, in 1922, not only was her picture, "The Faun," accepted, but she was elected an A.R.A.— the first woman for over a century to receive that distinction. In 1883 she married Joseph W. Swynnerton, a sculptor, who died in 1910.

UNDERCUT BY JAPAN.

BRITISH FIRMS' TENDERS. SINGAPORE, October 24. The Singapore municipality has recommended the acceptance of Japanese tenders for cast-iron pipes and other goods in which the tenderers undercut several British, firms.