AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
By Telegraph—Press AseceiaUoß.«--Ctopyri«^ LABOUR CONDITIONS IN TASMANIA, (Received May .16. 12.5 a.m.) Hobabt, May 15. Tire report of a Royal Commisiiion ob wages says that in the millinery, tailoring, and clothing trades there: is mach ''■ to condemn ; and the hours of waitresses 'are too long for the remuneration paid. In certain trades there is a practice of demanding premiums, and too many apprentices are employed in proportion to the number of journeymen. The Commission severely comments on the s wages paid to \ labourers by the Hobart City Council. . FUGITIVE OFFENDERS' LAW. I Adelaide, May 15. j A young man arrested here as a fugitive offender from Victoria , has been discharged by.th© magistrate, who held : that the Fugitive Offenders Act did not apply to States under the ; Federal Constitution, but only to distinct and separate British possessions;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13489, 16 May 1907, Page 5
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