AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11952, 24 May 1933, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FORTY-HOUR WEEK

ATT STB A LEV "WILLING TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT,

(TT.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (■Received Ma v 23. 9.50 p.m A CANBERRA. May 23.

Tho Commonwealth Government has instructed its delegate at the International Labour Conference to insist that the proposed forty-hour w’-’clc is not practicable in Australia, unless the leading nations of tne world, whose products compete with Australian, take similar action, but if the nations agree to uniform reduced standard hours. Australia will be re.adv to ioin an international agreement to that offset.

Tw 0 "unexpected but vorv welcome visitors appeared at the "Ftetayv ° 3 -"' .-.ring on Alomlav in the- persons o Air ~J. Pearce- Luke vice-president of tile Associated Chambers of Commerce and Mr. A. O. Hennv. the organising seeretarv. In acknowledging the welcome extended *o them. Mr. TT.eanv said that he - so null.v was no •stranger to these parts, as it was his native .own. Ho believed aL-o that the name Hec,my was also well-known here. Omy hhat dav he had met a resident who had .recalled that he had carried him when an infant on to the boat He hoped that he would not have to be carried when he was leaving on ten occasion. (Laughter.) AV ben accepting an invitation to include Gisborne m tlmir tour, they had had brought to their notice- very forcibly, the fact that Gwboruo locked railway Ewilltics. No doubt‘they would have that disadvantage still further impressed upon them by the Chamber of Commerce during flic a isit.