IN AUSTRALIA
1 AUSTRAIdAN HOME GUARD. (Australian tress Association). | CANBERRA, September 13. A conference of police commissioners, yesterday, drew up a plan lor the. creation of a Home Guard, who will be required to- assiit the police in time of eme'rgencj', also' to deal with subversive imfluehces - in the 'CompionwehltlU -It will recomm'end the'.Eecleral Government to adopt it. Hospital ship strike. b|.. ADELAIDE, September 13. The Minister for the' Navy (Mr Cameron), officially announced ‘ that the. engineering crews of the hospital ship Manunda and the merchant ship Revnalia, formerly the Italian ; Remo, refused to take those! vessels to sea, unless they were giveh the equivalent of sterling rates of pay, together-with •a- s?a,.pe.Ujcent s bonus* i« Mr Cameron described the men’s action as wage-profiteering, which would,not be tolerated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1940, Page 3
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