AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16097, 10 December 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

STATE AS BAKER. NEW SOUTH WALES SCHEME, By Te!esrr»Dli—Press Association— Srovrr, Decern 9. The Caucus ha 3 finally endorsed the State Bread Monopoly Bill. The scheme win cost approximately £600.000. the Government resuming the whole of the existing bakeries in the metropolitan area. Fat? central bakeries will be required srJ the present delivery by carts will be coatinned- Later on a central bakery equipped with the most modern machinery and a fleet of motors, will replace tha forty scattered bakeries and horse carta. The Operative Bakers* Union has paged a resolution emphatically protesting agairafc the scheme, which, it contends, wiH men the dismissal of hundreds of workers. ~

ACQUISITION OP WHEAT. GOVERNMENT'S STOCK. Srosrx, December S. Returns show that the wheat taken by the Government under the Wheat Acqistion Act amounts to 5,069,353 rm»VW and cost £1,267,334. ELECTION OF LOED KAYOS, VOTES EQUALLY DIVIDED. . Stdket, December 9. The voting for Lord Mayor resulted is Alderman Hogan and Alderman Meagher, the only two candidates, tying. 13» meeting of the council was adjourned top a week, in order to obtain a legal ophaoß on the position. Prior ~ the election the council decided to reduce the Led Mayoral allowance from £1500 to £1903.