AUSTRALIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1934, Page 4

AUSTRALIA

[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MINERS’ WAGES. PERTH, December 26. l The State Arbitration Court grant- > ed substantial increases in wages of I underground workers in the goldi mining industry who now receive - 15/- a week more than on the old - basis. SYDNEY MAYORALTY. SYDNEY, December 26. Unless the City Council by the end of this week overcomes the deadlock • in connection with the election of Lord Mayor, the appointment will be • made by’ the State Government early next week. CENTENARY LOSSES. PERTH, December 26. The Victorian Premier, Sir S. Argyle, on arrival here, said the Centenary Committee, would probably find a difficulty recouping its estimated expenditure, because on the days when public support was most expected, the weather had been against them. TRAWLER BEACHED. SYDNEY, December 23. A small trawler, the Elsie, sprang a leak while proceeding from Sydney to Jervis Bay, and was beached off Kurnell. She is now high and dry, and if temporary repairs can he effected, she may bo refloated on the prevailing high tides. SYDNEY, December 25. The Eileen, not the Elsie, is still aground at Kurnell. The crew of five is camped on the beach. A gaping hole in the vessel’s side gives little hope of the ship refloating. N.T. WAGE DISPUTE. DARWIN, December 25. A general strike of the railway, wharf, pastoral and mine workers is threatened in the Northern Territory •at the beginning of the New Year, owing to the reduction of the basic wage from £4/16/3 per week to £4 under an award of the Arbitration Court, which has just been announced. About five hundred men are involved. It has also been decided to demand the restoration of the 1929 conditions, when the basic wage in the Northern Territory was £5/10/- per week. PLAY COMPETITION. SYDNEY, December 25. The results are announced of the one-act play competition which was promoted here by the Laura Bogue Luffman Memorial Fund Committee. The winner was Dr. J. V. Duhig, of Brisbane, with the contribution, “The Ruling Passion.” Mr. Eric Bradwell, of Wellington, New Zealand, was a close second, with “Zero Hour”. “The Golden Door,” submitted by Miss Una Craig, of Epsom, Auckland, was highly commended. Seventy-eight plays were received. The judges declared l‘Zero Hour” was brightly and capably written, with a definite plot, involving an orderly -progress of action.