AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 9

AUS TRALIAN NEWS.

INCREASED GOLD YSELD- * ARREST OP 19 YEARS' DECLINE.' A. and N.Z. MELEOURNE. Jan. 11. The Commonwealth gold yield last year , : was 761,42602. fine/? an increase of 2©3os.'' comparedi with that of the previous "year.,-.', This is the first time since 1903Hhalthe ■•* ■: decline in the yield tuyj been arrested. ' THE FORTY-EIGHT HOUR WEEK. THE RAILWAY. WORKSHOPS. '*"' ', SYDNEY. Jan. 12. . The-Railway Commissioners' have ■ announced that from Monday next the'4B- - week will be reintroduced in-the railway and i tramway workshops,' and that . work on Saturday mornings will be re-/ verted to* Following up this announcement ; v a number of employees have been givejnj f notice of .dismissal for ihe-reason thai/ 3 : ." •with longer hours being Worked r their;Ear--vices will not be required. . ■ - :i A mass meeting,of engineers- hz > held on Saturday to consider what action • is to be taken. ■ r'\' :■;: ._ ', NEW SOUTH v, WALE? LANDS. , r POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. .-;'/, ■ ;■'•.. ' : !; SYDNEY; Jan. 11. .-. The National Party, in a .farewell message to; Sir George Fuller, Premier of ' New. South ! '; : Wales, who has gone, on a ':'. trip to England, endorsed the -Government's land policy, which includes'; the : bursting up of large estates. _'" w . J i SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS. SYDNEY; Jan/11. -. At the swimming championship meeting the k 500 yds; ladies' championship of; Hew South Wales was won by Mina; jWylie, ■''■';' with L. ; 'i Robertson second, and E. v ton third. Tha race was won ] from start i V to finish. Time, 4m. 265. ■ ■■-.-/' ;■• ','.. > . : ■-':'.W. Harris, of Honolulu, easily' won 'his heat in the Now South WalesolOOyds.' championship, his time "being .58.-OrSs..-The final will be decided to-morrow;^./ . PRUIT SELLERS' COMMISSION, ■■,■;,' ' ;. BRISBANE; iraitrll. ■ Under the Profiteering ; Preyention Act, ' a proclamation has been issued regulating . ' the rates of commission which niay-fcia charged by commission agents 'gelling fruit. PRICE OP BOTTER ADVANCED^ 1 BRISBANE. Jan.' 11. ; The wholesale price of butter .uas-becu ....-.'. I increased from lßos Sd Jo 186s jp£r,,cwt> ■~ . I ''" , U ■ \ ' '"- ,1/ .' ■;■■; ; ■■'.' ■'■' ■ ; 'y;' ; •";•.-'',' / '- : -';/f|/-;^;^^ i Hi | ■--■•■•■• -.■■'■■ i .ii imniMju. » i. imiii .. ma'