AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY,
(Received Feb. 25, 1 n.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 24. At the Economic Conference, Mr. William Brooks,, speaking for the employers, said that when industries were threatened with paralysis all employers were prepared to carry mi without profit in order to keep up employment. THE HIDES MARKET. MELBOURNE, Feb. 24. Hides are easier; kips and lightweights declined cue halfpenny and mediums a farthing; and heavyweights and stouts were unchanged. EXHIBITION TENNIS. SYDNEY, Feb. 24: In the exhibition tenuis matches Peach beat Patterson, 7—5, I—6.1 —6. 6 —3.—U.P.A. FINAL SHEFFIELD SHIELD MATCH. ADELAIDE, Feb. 24. The final Sheffield Shield match commenced between South Austi alia and Victoria. The former have 4 down for 98—Smith 16, Murray H, Ruudell (in) 43. —LLP.A. MEAT STRIKE ENDED. MELBOURNE, Feb. 24. The meat strike has ended, all hands returning to . their former positions. There will be no disernuillation against union drovers and no victimisation.
SYDNEY’S CLEAR. BILL OF HEALTH.
SYDNEY, Feh. 24. The City Health Officer reported that Sydney has seldom been so healthy' as in the past five months, both the death rate and infantile mortality showing remarkable reductions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6321, 25 February 1922, Page 5
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