WORK AND WAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 9832, 22 October 1895, Page 2

WORK AND WAGES.

[Pke Peess Association.]

SYDNEY, October 22.

In consequence of complaints as to unfair competition tho Government have issued a circular forbidding Civil servants engaging in outside work. The Government have secured the aexvices of seven specialists in various industries to act as a board of advice to the Government in their efforts to assist producers to develop trade with the British and faj'eigu markets.

At a meeting of .the Unemployed Reli. f Committee yesterday the-chairman (Mr Chishojm) reported on the works executed during the past week. There were now only forty weight men engaged, and they would be considerably reduced in a few days (mostly employed on the Duke street improvements and: the extension of Rattray street through the Roslyn train cutting). It was decided to call the attention of the City Council to the cutting down i>f the whole of the gorse and broom on the reserves, and to suggest that hereafter the grass should be let on the understanding that it be closely cut all oyer the Belt at least twice a year.