AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 1 November 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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SYDNEY, Oct. 30. The wholesale, price- of butter Jms boon reduced a penny » P°\ wL .. In the Arbitration Court,.Judge lonn ruled that the new declarationbv the Hoard of Trade reducing living ;• {■« 3s takes the place of the old 1 viag awee declaration. This means that applications by employers lor reduction in wages may be granted. Accordingly applications by the textile ~manufi:'.u.- S rs. and Hosking, Ltd. iron and ste j! industries for reduction of wages by „s weekly were granted. . y SYDNEY, This Day. The Bureau of Statistics reports that unions in tlm Commonwealth number 796, with a membership or 684,450. ± t „ ~ The Federal Government Kxoeutne Council passed ordinances empowering the, Administrator of New Guinea to impose a head tax on natives of JOs. a year and an education tax ot a similar amount. . , , Persistent rumours circulating m 'MC circles for some, tiine were, brought to i head bv a definite statement that on? alderman in the, city council ••uvej.tn: £SO as an instalment of £7OO te ie paid as commission if a certain v,t.fjblock contract was engineered through 'the council. It is understood Cabinet is considering the appointmc.it cf a, Royal commission. An action for libel l ••ontetplated. J MELBOURNE, Oct. 29. Frank Burns knocked out Tommy d-on in the tenth round for the Australian middleweight championship. BRISBANE, This Day. The Trades Council nas-ed renin-, (ion of no confidence in the, pt->]( fed. chain of labour dailies liio Commonwealth. |

BRISBANE, Oct. 31. _ Hiving evidence at the Mount Mulli!gan enquiry, Mr %iilh, Government 'geologist, said if gas was present in the mine at the timo of the. explosion it would have been discoverable to-day. tie expressed the opinion that explosives had been carelessly handled in the mine. The night, officer, named Thoelnne, at the railway station, boarded a train to o'htain a * passenger's hat. Ho nlighted 150 vards from the station, and was on right in the rear part of the train and mutilated .and died an hour later.