AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

TIMBER MILL BURNT. BT CABLE—PEEBB ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received June 23, 9.55 a.m. ‘ MELBOURNE!, June 23. Garuck s timber mill at Po we llt own was completely destroyed by fire The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. COLOURED LABOUR. m PERTH, June 23. Bishop Trower, of Broome, after fourteen years’ experience of the northern arears of Australia, declares emphatically for the introduction of coloured labour He urges a system of bringing indentured labourers from southern India and suggests that natives be imported m family groups, with the proviso that the children be deported with the parents when their term of indentures ends;—Aus.-N Z Cable Assn. SHIPPING. . MELBOURNE, June 21. Arrived.—Nardana and Kaikoura, from New Zealand. ’ Received June 23, 9.55 a.m. , . , SYDNEY. June 23. Arrived.—Dorset, from Dunediji . . , NEWCASTLE, June 23. Arrived .—King Howell and Waitomo, a J ll Zealand.— A us. -N.Z. Cable Assn. £6OOO SALVAGE. T , ~ . SYDNEY, June 20. the Marine Court awarded £6OOO salvage against the owners of the Honolulu Maru, £4OOO to go to the owners'of the tug Champion and £2OOO to be divided among the tug’s crew. STATE HOUSING. , SYDNEY, June 21. m o! 1 : p! ,' ovldln K for the abolition of the State housing scheme find aHousl'fR ai 't m ent has been prepared hv •■ii i'^ er Eocal Government, and ■will Q 6 introduced next session. PUBLIC SERVICE. SALARIES. T , „ , MELBOURNE, Juno. 21. Ihe Federal Puhlic Service Hoard has fixed the classification and salaries of officers m the mail branches for the Commonwealth. The maximum salaries ot superintendents range from £6IJ at Perth to £876 at Sydney; assistant superintendents from £4BO to £635 • supervisors. _ from £384 to £6OO. ’The classification provides for an annual review of. the scales of salaries. The hoard decided that the Commonwealth stntisticnan’s figures regarding the cost of liviiio- he taken into consideration on April ] each year, and where the index number exceeds a given limit, or is below a stated figure the salaries he increased or decreased accordingly. Right of appeal is provided for.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.