AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1926, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

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’WAR BONDS.

SYDNEY, January 21. lire official report shows that about a million sterling of recently matured 1925 war bonds are unclaimed, and the Treasury is anxious to secure authority to re-invest in the new five and a quarter per cent loan, considering it is inadvisable that such large sums should remain idle.

44 HOURS WEEK.

SYDNEY, January 21.

The forty-four hours week is responsible for an advance of threepence per thousand feet of gas, which is now 5/7. As another consequence of the introduction of the forty-four hour week, and the resultant increased cost of

handling and distribution of dairy produce, tire S.elling Agents’ Association announced that their charges were increased by amounts varying from 25 to 50 per cent.

POLICE HANDCUFFS.

SYDNEY, January 21.

Returning from a tour of Europe and" America, Police Commissioner Mitchell recommends the abolition of handcuffs from uniformed police, on the ground that they are an obsolete method of dealing with prisoners, long since abolished in cities abroad. The recommendation met with strong opposition‘from the police, who urged that in a city so comparatively sparsely policed as in Sydney, they were placed at the mercy of a violent prisoner* unless provided with handcuffs.

The Chief Secretary has now revoked the order for adopting Mitchell’s recommendation, which ho previously approved.