AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MAILBAG THEFT. SYDNEY, May 7. The Commissioner of Police, on behalf of the Government of New South Wales, offers a reward of £lOOO for information likely to lead to the arrest of the train thieves who stole the mailbag containing ten thousand pounds in notes from the mail train last Friday. SYDNEY, May 8. An important clue in the theft of the mailbag was a discovery by the police of a bag in the Queanbeyan river. The bag, which was evidently dropped off a bridge crossing the river was filled with stones.

TRANSPORT CONTROL. / SYDNEY. May 7. The State Labour caucus has approved a Bill to bring the whole of the transport systems, including motor buses and also main roads, under the Ministry of Transport. Thefe will be a Chief Commissioner and four assistant Commissioners, one of whom will be representative of the rail and tramway employees. Their functions will include the co-ordination of the transport systems. WATERSIDE LABOUR. MELBOURNE, May 7. Judge Beeby, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, refused to insert in the* Sydney Waterside Workers’Award a new clause providing for the Roster system, to be controlled by the Union. He ordered the employers other than the coastal shippers to distribute the work among the competent men as evenly as possible, giving priority to the Waterside Federation members. Judge Beeby will empower the Sydney Branch of the Federation to make rules to prevent any member of the Federation accepting employment which yields him an amount exceeding the basic wage less ten per cent. The idea is to ration the work available. _•