AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17325, 13 April 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

THE DROUGHT BROKEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ■.SYDNEY, April 12. Steady rain is falling in the droughtstricken areas. LABOR WILL GREET THE PRINCE. SYDNEY, April 12. The new Ministry have been sworn in. Mr (Premier) deprecates the extremist resolutions by sections of the Labor Party concerning tho reception to the Pnnce of Wales and savs the new Gov eminent are prepared suitably to receive and entertain the Prince. OFF THE ROLL. SYDNEY, Aoril 12. The Full Court have dismissed Mr R. D. Meagher’s further application for reinstatement on the roll of solicitors. SHORTER HOURS. SYDNEY, April 15, The Shop Assistants' Union derided to demand a 44-hour week with the abolition of the lato shopping night. The new Government are provided with at least one knotty problem to go on with—viz., the unions’ demand for a 44-hour week and no Saturday work. Leading commercial men are pressing the question forward. It is, anticipated that, as the Premier and most of his colleagues are Moderates and supporters of Arbitration, they will take a moderate View of the position. VICKERS’S"VICTORIAN VENTURE. SYDNEY, April 13 It is unofficially stated that'Vickers, Ltd., propose to establish a shipbuilding works in Victoria. STATE SAW MILL BURNT. PERTH, April 13. Tho State saw mill at Big Brook has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at between £50,000 and £40,000.