AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association. THE BASIC WAGE. SYDNEY, September 13. (Received September 13, at 11.5 a.m.) Representatives of some of the industrial concerns in tho State asked the Board of Trade to fix the basic wage at not more than £4 per week. A decision is expected on October 8. VICTORIAN POLITICS. MELBOURNE, September 13. (Received September 13, at 11.10 a.m.) The Victorian political crisis is expected to terminate to-day. Tho Government is offering to back a voluntary wheat pool to the extent of 4s per bushel The Farmers’ Party is pressing for a compulsory pool.
FORTY-FOUR-HOUR WEEK. AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY. MELBOURNE, (September 13. (Received September 13, at 9.10 a-m.) It was stated in the Federal Arbitration Court that the forty-four-hour week at Cockatoo Dock "involved an extra cost of £70,000 a year. AORANGI REFLOATED. SYDNEY, September 13. (Received September 13, at 11.5 a.m.) News has readied Sydney that tho steamer Aorangi, formerly a New Zealand trader, which was sunk in Holm Sound for war purposes, has been refloated and is doing duty as a hulk, POLITICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, -September 11. Sir George Fuller, in outlining the Nationalist Party’s platform in view of the Ministerial hint that there might bo a General Election at an early date, said that he had decided to include in hia programme the abolition of the Board of Trade fair rents and price-fixing tribunals, which he declared were producing permanent unemployment. Other new planks 'were a reduction ill tho salaries of members of Parliament'and the termination of the Epidemic Royal Commissions. 'Sir George Fuller ended that he believed the workers themselves were realising that those measures, which were guaranteed to bring about the social and industrial millennium, have wrought nothing but harm, and if. persisted in would load to disaster. LORD NORTHCLIFFE. MELBOURNE, September 12. Lord Northcliffe arrived, and waa officially welcomed by representatives of the Governor-General State Governor, and Federal and State Governments. I
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Evening Star, Issue 17765, 13 September 1921, Page 4
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329AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS Evening Star, Issue 17765, 13 September 1921, Page 4
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