NEWS IN BRIEF.
ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Jan. 21. Twelve hundred employees of Morts Dock belonging to the Ship Painters’ and Dockers’ Union, struck over a dispute concerning permanent and casual labour. MELBOURNE, Jan. 21. Bush fires are still raging on the Mount Buffalo slopes. Many firefighters narrowly escaped with their lives, the flames cutting off several parties. WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The State Department has announced that seventeen countries have already exhausted their current immigration quota, while fifty have balances. Australia, with a quota of 121, still has sixty-seven, and New Zealand, with a quota of 100„ has thirty-three. Yap and Afghanistan are the only countries not to send immigrants to the United States during the present fiscal year, each having a quota of 100.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 5
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128NEWS IN BRIEF. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 5
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