AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
A LIVING WAGE. TRADES UNIONS' FIGURES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 1 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 18. At the Board of Trade inquiry into the cost of living, representatives of various unions submitted figures in support of their claim that a living wage should be based on a necessary weekly expenditure of £5 14s 7d for a two-child family. THE SPELTER INDUSTRY. SUBSIDY FROM BRITAIN. MELBOURNE, Sept. 18. In the House of Representatives Mr. W. M. Hughes stated the British Government was advancing the Commonwealth i £50,000 to foster the treatment of spelter in Australia. STRIKE ON WALSH ISLAND. A DISMISSAL THE ■ CAUSE. SYDNEY, Sept. 18. The shipwrights at Walsh Island have work on account of the dismissal iof a foreman. The launching of a 5500- [ ton steamer arranged for to-morrow has been pu&tponed. FARMERS' POLITICAL POLICY. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. SYDNEY. Sept. 18. The Farmers' Conference resolved to place on the platform of the Progressive Party insurance against accident, illness, unemployment, old age and death, on lines of the British measure. It also decided against the system of pre-selection of Parliamentary candidates. f REOPENING OF MINES. RESUMPTION AT COBAR. SYDNEY, Sept. 18. Mining operations will be resumed at Cobar on Monday,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 7
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