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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.! (By Cable—Press Assn.— Copyright.) RAILWAY LOSSES. MELBOURNE, May 26. A deficit of about a million sterling is expected from the Victorian railways, in the current year, now almost ended. THIEVES FIRE BUILDING. SYDNEY, May 25. Safe-blowers, after opening a safe at Wallace’s factory at Deichardt. and finding it empty, set fire to the building, causing £6OO worth of damage. This is the second case of the kind within a fortnight PRINTERS’ STRIKE FAILS. PERTH, May 25. A prolonged strike in the job printing industry, involving 300 men, has ended, the ‘men agreeing to return on the same wages and conditions obtaining at the beginning ol the dispute in February. RO'I'OM A HANA’S END. MELBOURNE, May 26. The old steamship. Rotomahana, for many years in the Melbourne-New Zealand passenger cargo service, and later in the Tasmanian service, begins her last voyage on Monday. She will be towed three miles outsidq Port Phillip Hoads Io be sunk.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 May 1928, Page 7
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