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WORLD-WIDE HAPPENINGS. The Federation of Textile Employers at,. Kregeld, following the failure of negotiations with the workers, ordered a lock-out on. October 28. The Ready-nfade ‘Ulo tiling Workers' Union replied by calling a, strike of its 00,000 members. Unless an agreement is reached the whole trade will be brought to a standstill. . As au outcome of the strike at Adelaide, of moulders, who are demanding an increase in pay, the Railway Commissioners announce that the whole Islington workshops, except the rail and motor works, will be closed down. ' Nearly 2000. nu n will be thrown idle. German immigrants, are .again beginning to How into Australia, states a Melbourne message. The steamer Kohn landed 245. Germans and Ger-uian-Swiss tor various States, also a German journalist who is to ropre-. sent the German immigration authorities, and who has been commissioned''by. eight foreign newspapers ;to write,articles on Australia. , The annual report of the Queensland Trade Commissioner shows that the operations of the fetate .cattle stations in the last, financial year showed a loss"of £285,486, .while six Other State enterprises showed an no-”Tegate profit of £24,542., /I he totaf loss oh State stations since their inception amounts to, £11,116,480.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 6
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