AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

PRICE OFSUGAR REDUCED. BILL PASSED BY SENATE. > A.*udN.Z. : MELBOURNE, Oct. 14. The Sugar Bill passed through all stages in the SeuaW In the House of Representatives tho Minister for Ooztimu announced that sugar would be reduced to 5d per lb. from November 1. ' £802,000 LOST BY SUG.&R CONTROL, MELBOURNE, Oct. 14. The Joint Committee on Public Account.} in an interim report states that £26 10s a ton ia a sufficient, price for raw sugar, which could be retailed at, £42 per tm, or 4-Ad per lb. Balance-sheets for the period of sugar control to May 19, show a net loss of £302,000: COADJUTOR ARCHBISHOP. J SYDNEY, Oct. 14. Dr. Sheehan, Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, arrived to-day and was officially welcomed by various Roman Cfcthohc organisations. The route to the Cathedral was lined by thousands of people. PRICE OP BUTTER REDUCED. SYDNEY, Oct. 14. , The wholesale price of butter will be reduced on Monday by Id per lb. RESTRAINT OE STRIKE REFUSED. HOBART. Oct. 14. In the Practice Court an application by the Electrolytic Zinc Company tor an injunction to restrain the Engineers Union from striking, or assisting a ■tritoof the company's employees for the P^£ securing a reduotion of working hours JHJg* 48 to 44 weekly, was dismissed. r , ~ »*"** who commanded &>&*&■£# War, *•« fourth^attahona. m l killed in a motor _sma» »«- V . t /GO-SLOW .XH * 14- ; $*££& Maii^l a rv»£all,beHft»a> ; .