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— (Australian and N.A. Cable Association.] CITY AS UNDERTAKE!!. SYDNEY, This Day.—The City Council has passed a resolution in favour of a municipal undertaking* to reduce the cost of funerals. WAR GRATUITIES. MELBOURNE, This Day.— The war gratuities issued to the end of July amounted to twelve and a-half million, of which two milion has been cashed. I.W.W. PRISONERS. SYDNEY, This Day—Mr Fuller has launched a motion of censure on the Storey Government, the gravamen of it being Judge Ewing’s inquiry aud the subsequent release of the prisoners. STRIKE PROSPECT. MELBOURNE, This Day.— The prospect of a strike among New South Wales coal miners is . greatly perturbing Victoria, as the industries are keenly feeling the coal shortage, having to utilise half brown coal and having no reserve. MORE FREIGHTERS. SYDNEY, This Day.—Mr . Daniel Cook, a representative of the General Steamship Corporation of San Francisco, is investi- * '■Ding trade opportunities of Australasia and America. He stated that he has five freighters exceeding 8000 tons to be put on the Australian and New Zealand run. Tliis number will be increased later to ten.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1920, Page 6
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