MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 285, 17 November 1923, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The latest strike phase at Broken Hill is that the workers’ union resolved that members be compelled to wear the ribbon in a conspicuous place. One man declined to decorate himself, whereupon the mine was thrown idle for his shift. At the Medical Congress at Mel- . bourne, Dr. Purdy strongly condemned overtime work as a cause of nervous , troubles It was so fruitful in this < direction that it should only be en- . gaged in as an emergency. ! Australian taxpayers’ evergreen grumble against the cost of the combined State and Federal administration has received a fillip from figures supplied by the Federal Commissioner showing that the Commonwealth alone finds employment for 41,620 persons with an annual pay roll of £7,801.000, exclusive of overtime and travelling expenses. ] j Barred by his own recently-issued - ukase against street-speaking, the 1 New South Wales Chief Secretary had c reluctantly to decline speaking at an 1 open-air hospital carnival display Sir t George Fuller declined speaking for the J same reason t I The Keedick Bureau. New York, has •= announced that a series of six lectures | will be delivered in America bv the i ex-Premier of Australia. Mr. W. M. <■ Hughes, early in 1924 upon Australian, international, and labour problems. A fire at Richmond, Queensland, destroyed a block of shops and the Post Office. The damage is £30,000, t 1 Dahlberg has been committed for s trial on a charge of murdering Hanks y on the steamer Woolgar at Melbourne s during the recent rioting. j The New Zealand Hop Mercantile * Company, London, has declared the r year’s dividend at 4 per cent, tax free, f Sir Allan Smith has resigned the chair- t manship. s The Sydney Labour Council has issued an ultimatum to the Bread Carters’ . Union, declaring hostility to the latter’s a action in co-operating with the employ- q era in a dispute over hours of employment. The Council threatens to form a militant sublbranch of the union to cater for carters considered to be working in the interests of the working class, the latter to wear distinguishing badges when delivering bread