AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1932, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). SYDNEY. September 19. Premier St vens, reviewing railway and tramway finances, announced that rationing of these services would be abolished which will mean a retrenchment of about 3500 employees. MELBOURNE, September 19. The trouble experienced at the Metropolitan abattoirs ns the rOSUbof the slaughtermens’ “go-slow’’ pol icy in dealing with export lambs reached a climax during th,, week-end. Om* large firm of exporters dismissed eight slaughterin'’!), who declined to adhere to th., usual daily tally of a hundred lambs. The disp.fite arose because they desired to reduce the tally to eighty, on account of the recent reductions of pay by the Arbitration Court. MELBOURNE. September 19. While a dane ■ was being held in the Friends of the Soviet Hall, a fusillade of rille bullets was fired. The bullets riddled the windows and walls of the building. l»ut no one was hurt. The attack, it is believed, was made by a jnol» of larrikins, as a reprisal for the ejection of fiv ( . of their number front the dance earlier in the night. Twenty young men, armed with rifles and p ; rkets, were seen on the other side of the street. Stones and pickets wore Imried through the winThe darn-er:- i»r-’\cnted a rush on the buildings by bolting th, doors. Three larg- 1 glass windows in the shop helo v - wore pierced by bullets. SYDN EY. s. pt ember 19. An attempt ”a< made Io derail the Brisbane' exp. ••<>. last night when a number of iron couplings were placed on the tracks mar Muswellbrook station. Th< driver felt -harp bumps, but the train kept to the rails. Three nr.‘ n are 1 • ! fl for cp.(Minning.