COMMONWEALTH CABLES
AUSTRALIAN FINANCES. 1 UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SYDNEY, May 2. The State finances reveal a deficit of 2 GSS,O(X> for the .ten months it the financial year. The revenue shows an increase of -£1,724,060. . . The Commonwealth and -States raised between them last year £180, 000, 111, equivalent to £29 'los lOd per head. , The. public debt of the Commonwealth in June, 192 1 , was £461,000,000. H OURS OF' TIMBER WORKERS. MELBOURNE. May 2. Jud"e Lukin,v in the Arbitration Court”when delivering judgment on the timber workers’ case, fixed the hours at forty-eight at sawmills dealing with Australian or foreign timbers.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 7
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