AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE MR. HUGHES TO PRESIDE. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Feb. 24. The round table industrial conference spent to-day's session in arguing over the chairmanship. Ultimately' the employees withdrew their opposition to Mr. Hughes, who was unanimously appointed chairman. Mr. William Brooks, speaking for the employers, said that when industries were threatened with paralysis all the employers were prepared to carry on without profit in order to keep up employment.
SYDNEY'S HEALTH IMPROVES. , | SYDNEY, Feb. 24. The city" health officer reports that Sydney has seldom been so healthy as during the past five months. Both the deathrate and infantile mortality show remark-, able reductions.
END OF THE 'MEAT STRIKE. I MELBOURNE, Feb. 24. The meat strike has ended and all hands are returning to their former positions. There will be no discrimination against union drivers, and no victimisation. CARE OF THE WATERFRONT. SYDNEY, Feb. 24. A public meeting at the Town Hall passed a resolution that the Commonwealth bo requested to resume the Pastoral Finance Association's site to prevent other buildings replacing that desi troyed by fire.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 9
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