AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 19 February 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph —Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) SYDNEY, Feb 18. The Necessary Commodities Commission, after inquiry iuito the price of bools, decided to lift the proclamation fixing the* price prevailing on January Bth, owing to the increasing eost of hides. Manufacturers state that the factory price exceeds the rgtail price. Potato, prices are soaring. Victorian reached £25 per ton. MELBOURNE, Feb. 18. Victorian millers will be raanufaturing Hour for the Imperial) Government during the next few months, (Bee. 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Tlus Day, The A.W.W. Convention passed a resolution in favour of the creation of one big union. ■The City Council increased the nates to 4# in the pound.. Speaking at an election) meeting, Mr Holman quoted official figures showing that the loss of wages in. Australia djuriti/g Jptist years Thz'bugh Vlbrikos amounted to £4,000,000. BRISBANE, This Day. Tlie Government has appointed fourteen prominent Labourites to the Legislative Council in order to secure the passage of Labour legislation_ ADELAIDE, This Day. Keeper May, whose arm was bitten off by a bear, died from his injuries. MELBOURNE, This Day. The State Cabinet suspended the building trade awards lor twelve months. 'Cabinet decided- in view of the injury to the Prince of Wales’ hand in America through, excessive handshaking, to ask the people merely to how when meeting H.is Royal Highness.