AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17337, 8 December 1919, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

ENEMY ALIEN DOCTORS. 1 1 DEPORTATION URGED. < Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 7. ] The New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association has resolved to ask the Federal Government to deport all ; j doctors interned during war as enemy I aliens, and also to remove their names and the names of all those registered in virtue of German or Austrian qualifications, now resident or practising in New South Wales, from the medical register. NO WORK ON SATURDAY. MOVEMENT IN QUEENSLAND. (Reed. 6.30 p.m.) BRISBANE. Dec. 7. In furtherance of the movement to secure a 40-hour working week, employees in the building and allied trades yesterday held a stop-work meeting and decided to continue the practice until further notice, thus cutting out Saturday work. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY. END OF THE STRIKE. (Reed. 6.30 pan.) MELBOURNE. Dtec. 7. | As a result of negotiations traffic will j !be resumed immediately on the transAustralian railway, pending a conference to settle details of the settlement. The employees who have been on strike will be reinstated. BREAK OF THE DROUGHT. RAIN REACHES THE WEST. SYDNEY, Dec, 6. The drought has now broken all over the State, good falls of rain having been experienced in the far west. GASWORKERS' DEMANDS. STRIKE IN FOUR- TOWNS. MELBOURNE. Dec. 6. The gasworkers at Melbourne, Ballarat, : Bendigo, and Geelong have struck work , demanding increased wages. SYDNEY BREWERY STRIKE. ! LABOUR COUNCIL'S SUPPORT. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. • The Labour Council has decided to sup- . port the brewery workers, who are on - strike, and also the letterpress machinists, - who have given 14 days' notice of a . strike, unless increased wages are granted.

BOARD OF TRADE BASIC WAGE. TO APPLY TO PUBLIC SERVANTS. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The Government has decided that the Board of Trade award, increasing the basic living wage by 17s a week, shall apply to the whole State Public Service on salaries up to £525 per annum. STATE MEDICAL SERVICE. PROPOSAL IN VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Dec. 6. A new clause was added to the Health Bill by the House of Assembly empowering the employment of doctors as Government or municipal officers, their duties to embrace attendance on persons entitled to it under any friendly society which entered into an agreement with the Minister of Health or with any municipality. 'WEST AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. • AMENDING BILL REJECTED. PERTH, Dec. 6. The Legislative Council rejected the Constitution Amendment Bill, which passed the Lower H<?use and provided household suffrage as the franchise for the Council, and the extension of the life of the present Parliament. DOMESTIC SERVANTS ORGANISE. A NEW NAME WANTED. SYDNEY, Dec. 6. A meeting of women formed an organisation demanding better conditions for domestic servants. They claim a 56-hour week and a minimum wage of 20s a week, good accommodation, and the abolition of the term domestic servant in favour of household assistant.