TRADES AND LABOUR.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, January 23.
Mr Cook, the Postmaster-general, replying to a deputation from the Seamen's Conference, who urged that the Government should not subsidise mail steamers employing Asiatics, aaid he would go to the Postal Conference in Hobart with his mind clearly made up to use his best endeavours to try and get white labour only employed on mail steamers.
According -to the Tapiwrai Couriar one large agricultural and pastoral estate in Otago baa cut wages down 25 per cent.—viz., from 20s to 15s per week.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10265, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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