AUSTRALIA
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QUEENSLAND HEAT BRISBANE, January 3.
Blistering heat, with temperatures of 110 degrees and 112 degrees during the last four or five days, caused one death and the collapse of a number of old persons in the Central Queensland Hospital. The authorities at Blackall had to set electric fans blowing over blocks of ice to keep the patients cool.
DEARER STEEL SYDNEY, January 3. From to-morrow morning the wholesale mill steel price will be 5/- to 20/a ton higher. Uncompleted orders which have been in for some months will be affected by the increase. This announcement is made by the Broken rfill Proprietary Company and the Australian Iron and Steel Company, the two largest manufacturers in Australia.
The manufacturers state that the increases are necessitated by higher manufacturing costs. Rearmament programmes have also made a great demand on the steel industry. The bulk of the increases will be at the rate of 10/- a ton.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 January 1938, Page 7
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