AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS
SCARCITY OF HOUSES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. .SYDNEY, April 10. At the Basic "Wage inquiry house agents gave evidence that there -was such a scarcity of houses in the metropolitan area that people offered premiums for the privilege of renting dwellings. The question was not so much how much rent should -he paid, hut whether a house was obtainable. ADELAIDE. April 10. Land in Bundle street sold for £1,255 per foot—a record for Adelaide. STRIKE OF BUILDERS’ LABORERS. ADELAIDE, April 10. 'Hie building trade is at a standstill owing to a strike of the builders* laborers, who are demanding 15s per day. SOLOMON ISLANDS. BRISBANE, April 10/ Advices from the Solomon Islands state that_ great dissatisfaction is felt at the administration of the islands being given fo Australia, and a petition is being sent to the Colonial Office asking that the group be formed into a Crown colony.
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Evening Star, Issue 17323, 10 April 1920, Page 8
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154AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS Evening Star, Issue 17323, 10 April 1920, Page 8
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