AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1933, Page 7

AUSTRALIA

MEAT WORKS SETTLEMENT.

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SYDNEY, November 6.

The employees of the Homebush abattoirs, to-day decided to resume work by 1200 votes to 200 votes. The principal objectors were the mutton slaughtermen, whose wages are to be reduced from 40/3 per 100 to 39/1 per 100. Their wages will now be about £7 16/- weekly, or a reduction of 4/8.

BROKEN HILL MINE SYDNEY, November 7.

Strikers at Broken Hill South mine decided to resume work. The mine reopened and only forty of the seven hundred strikers failed to report.

N.S.W. COUNCIL ELECTION. SYDNEY, November 7. Officials of the State Australian Labour Party are making efforts to obtain a recount of the votes cast in the ballot for the election of the first fifteen members of the new Upper House. , The returning officer, Mr Calvert, announced that he will make his declaration in the morning. According to Mr Graves, General Secretary of the Australian Labour Party, application may be made to the Equity Court for an order restraining Mr Calvert until a recount is made. NEW LOAN. , MELBOURNE, November 7. The Loan Council decided to raise a. loan of ten million pounds, half to be utilised to fund outstanding Treasury bills, and half to be applied for the loan works programme of various Governments. The loan will be underwritten by the Commonwealth Bank, the terms being 3* per cent, at £99, for a period of ten years.