AUSTRALIAN NEWS
VARIOUS ITEMS. BY CABLS-PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYaiUHT (Received Jan. 29 10.25 a m > SYDNEY, Jan.'29. The dead.ock m the, shipping strike continues. The engineers are "nakino-iu-eparations for a prolonged stru«-..; e " ADELAIDE, Jan "29. As the result of tlie coal shortage caused,by the shipping strike, the Government,, has imposed restrictions on use of gas, similar to those in force during the seamen's strike. BRISBANE, Jan. 29. The steamer Taiyuan has been refloated undamaged. The Legislative Council has decided against compensation of the liquor trade in the event of State control o r prohibition becoming operative. MELBOURNE, Jan. 29. Tobacco prices have been increased by one penny to a penny halfpenny an ounce. A, flood at Bruthen, Gippsland, destroyed th© maize crop.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 29 January 1920, Page 8
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121AUSTRALIAN NEWS Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 29 January 1920, Page 8
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