AUSTRALIAN NEWS
(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BRISBANE, February 14. The members of three unions employed by the Brisbane abattoirs have decided to remain on strike until their demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and longer holidays, are granted. As the result of the strike, Brisbane will be faced with a meat shortage at the week-end and chilled beef exports will be stopped. SYDNEY, February 13. By wireless from the “Australia” — “We are still dancing attendance in a beam sea to the disabled schooner Seth Parker, which is drifting on a sea anchor, five miles away. The latest possibility is the tug Ontario may connect with the Seth Parker on Thursday evening. Meanwhile heavy squalls and night-long rain are completely obscuring the Seth Parker. She is very busy this evening transmitting a radio story to America. Nothing is yet settled regarding the remainder of the Duke’s itinerary.
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Grey River Argus, 15 February 1935, Page 5
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