OVERLAPPING.
INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION. FEDERAL AND STATE LOANS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE, June 17. A representative meeting of employers passed a motion condemning the overlapping of Federal and State industrial legislation, and calling on the Federal and State Government to legislate to put an end to existing complexities. The Federal Government announced that, suhect to agreement between the States, it will legislate to amend the Commonwealth industrial laws to exclude State instrumentalities. It also agreed to amend the constitution to incorporate in the constitution, a list of Federal industries, and to provide for a tribunal representing the Commonwealth and the States to’revise the list at least every five 'years. MORE TROUBLE AT COKF, WORKS. Received June 18i 10 a.m. SYDNEY, June 18. Further trouble has arisen at the Lithgow coke works owing to the company’s refusal to, grant the men the privileges of the recent coke industries award, which includes a 46-hour week. The hours prescribed for Lithgow number 48. The ovens have been closed down. - OVERDOSE OF DRUG. HOBART, June 18. A post mortem examination of the body of Captain Strickland, of the steamer Port Hacking, shows that death was due to an overdose of a drug which he was taking for an illness.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 7
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204OVERLAPPING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 7
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