AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SYDNEY, MarcE" 2. Sporting meetings were largely resumed yesterday, being well attended. Steps axe being taken to train a1 representative Australian team from the A.I.F. to ©hoot at Bisley in July. There have teen further widespread, bounteous rains. At Bega twenty-nine inches fell in .four days, considerable damage being done there and other places by floods.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MELBOURNE, March 3. A flood at Orfcest caused £100,000 damage to bean and maize crops. The Federal Government has issued a writ claiming half a million from' the Colonial Combing, Weaving and Spinning Company, of Sydney, for alleged money due and damages for breach of contract.
A number of union leaders are drafting a scheme on federation lines differing absolutely in principle from the one-big-unjon scheme, to cover all t>States and preserve essential craft affinities.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 5
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135AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 5
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