AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 17328, 16 April 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and 2v.Z. Cable Association.

STDXEY, April 16. The High Court reserved decision in the application of Richard Denis Meagher for leave to appeal against the judgment of the Full Court in refusing to restore him io the roll of solicitors.

Giving evidence before the Coal Commission, Mr Ferguson (public accountant) produced tabulated statements showing that the adoption of a six-hour day would mean a 50 per cent, incieaso in the price of coal.

Mr Walter F.rncst Wearue has been elected Leader of the Progressive Party. The value of the mineral" output in 1919 amounted to £9,882,365. This is the lowest since 1911.

The factory employees have given the employers a month's notice to abolish Saturday work.

MELBOURNE, April 16. The fund to be administered by the Canteen Trust amounts to nearly a million pounds, including £450,000 left by the fat© Sir Samuel M'Gaughey for tho" relief of soldiers' dependents. In tho House of Representatives Mr Hudies (Prime Minister) stated that the hve wooden steamers sold to the American Government had been seized by the Commonwealth Government through default by the purchasers in respect to the second payment.

Estimated as to the end of June nest Australia has spent £57,263,247 on repatriation and war pensions. As an outcome of the lino imposed on the Bricklayers' Union for refusing to work on Saturdays, the union have l>eon called on to show cause why their award should not be varied.

benato-- Guthrie has been nominated by the Government to attend tho International Labor Conference at Genoa in January next.