AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 22 July 1921, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

| ;l>y Electric 'telegraph —Copyright.) ■, ■ Ai)oiraJia»j A N.Z. table Association I SYDNEY, July 21. Tlic ijjoulck-rs refused to resume work J;it Cockatoo Island unless wages were increased, stating that they me at present. earning inure than the island laics with private firms. I A manifesto has been issued by the 'Australian Workers’ Union Hanning for New South Wales a forty-four hour week and rates of pay ranging from i4O - to (30 - per hundred sheep, ac- ' cording to Hass, where rations aro not found, and 3U/- ;i week less where rationed. Breakdown allowances whore rationed are fixed at 18/- and where not found 22/6 per day. j Mr Storey, responding to a public welcome, suited that nutw ithstandiiig the eifort of detractors leading underwriters in England informed him that lie could obtain as much loan money 'as he required for throe years at a. | satisfactory rate ol interest. | In llie '.House of Representatives Sir* |J. Coot; announced that Australia 3 I war bill was 44 million. I Although the Industries Preservation Bill, which is intended to proI vent dumping is listed lor debate on Eridav, it is understood it will bo I witlKt'nnvu, in consequence of opposition, till nest session. j MELBOURNE, July 21. f Tim secretary of the Labour Party stales he will "move an amendment in the Assembly with a view to amalgamating it he- al* armors and Labour Parties’ indictment- against the State Government. la the Senate the Minister for Ko* patrialion explained that the appoiutiVent „f Captain Tait, deputy-commis-sioner for war service homes in Victoria, had been terminated in consequence of the preferential treatment of himself in connection with blocks of land pnrehn ed for soldiers’ homos, also for the ‘Mo senior inspector of works, and the ' purchase of other hinds for his father-in-law and other n -h. t-ives without first obtaining tlio customary report. .