AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 18137, 29 November 1922, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

JPiVas Association—By Telegraph—-Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. THE WORKING WEEK. STRUGGLE IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, November 29. (Received November 29, at 10.40 a.m.) A. mass meeting of stove moulders decided, in view of a section of the etrikei's at Mettcrs’s resuming, that the strike be declared off so far as Metters’s firm is concerned. Two hundred men, who are, employed at several smaller shops, decided to continue the fight for tbo forty-four hour week. APPEAL TO LABOR MFAIBERS, SYDNEY, November 29. (Received November 29, at 10.40 a.m.) The Australian Labor Party appealed to members in the Federal and State Parliaments for loans of £25 each to enable the party to fight the Federal elections. So far the response has been poor. DUMPING DUTY ON MAIZE. MELBOURNE, November 29. (Received November 29, at 10 a.m.) 'Jlie Minister of Customs has decided to impose a dumping duty on South African maize, which was being sold to Australian buyers at an export price lower than the price in South Africa. BUTCHER’S TILL ROBBED. A smart” TRICK. SYDNEY, November 29. (Received November 29, at 10 a.m.) A thief, by means of a clever ruse, secured £149, the week-end takings in a butcher’s shop at Annandale. He entered the shop during the temporary absence of the proprietors, and asked) the employee in charge for two sets of brains. When the employes entered the refrigerating chamber to get them, the thief slammed and locked the door, and seized the money, which was in a bag in the till, and decamped.