AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THREATENED MEAT FAMINE TROUBLE OVER FIXED PRICES., ■': Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Reed. 8.10 p.m.) SYDNEY. Aug. 9. ! ; ■*■ A meat : famine next week is : threatened. The Master Butchers' Association has resolved that it is • impossible to maintain ."■■'•■■ supplies at the proclaimed rate, ; throwing responsibility on the Government. The carcase butchers have refused to supply j . meat to the People's Foodstuff Protection .' * Association, which > undertook to demon-'-yv. state*that it could sell profitably at the -.- - proclaimed; prices. ■ : '"i'; ; A.similar state of affairs .is reported ■:[■ from Melbourne; where the; butchers . threaten to take drastic action after v. ; v Monday. .;...; ;; : ■■[ ■;■■■■■'.' \'■ ■/■'•''■

. PROFIT-SHARING PROPOSALS. ■ *. "" _~ . ,; ' LABOUR COUNCIL • • OPPOSITION. . (B«cd. BJo'pjn.) SYDNEY. Aug. 9. ' '. The Labour, Council resolved to urge workers to oppose the employers' attempts .: ~to introduce the profit-sharing system, on the ground ; that it - r would -result in in- ■.:■.>;•: creased unemployment and the breakdown of jkhs present working conditions. .' > \ STHIK2 OF ENOIHEEBS. ' i 6 TWO ',THOUSAND MEN \ IDLE. ■ i , .■• J ,■ ■■;'. -■:.;.; ■■'.. . v MELBOURNE, Aug. 9. The Amalgamated Society of • Engineers la** struck in support of a demand for .;-■.-, a 20 per cent, increase in wages. -Two *' thousand men are idle.

. : VICTOBIAN SURPLUS OF £217,000. MELBOURNE, Auk. 9. ;; The State finances for the year show & surplus of £217,000. ' ' , "