AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

) THE BEEF INDUSTRY. MR HUGHES’S SUBSIDY OFFER. Piwl Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, May 1. The Cattle Council has completed an arrangerqent in the terms of Mr Hughes’ offer to subsidise the beef industry, all , parties having agreed to specified proper- ■ tionate reductions. The estimated dressed - weight is 195,000,0001 b of exportable beef, and the exportable proportion is 81 per cent. The Federal Government’s concession of Id per lb will yield £165,221, and the freight concession the same amount. ; Tbe ! meat works’ reduction of id per lb ’, Will yield half that sum. The labour reduction of l-16d will yield a quarter of'the ( above sum—a total of £453,677, equal to ,1k lOd per head or 4s 7d per 1001 b. INOPPORTUNE TO STRIKE. SYDNEY, May 1. A conference of unions which had been r called to consider the request by the Railway Commissioners that railway labourers should pass a medical test decided that ~ the present time was inopportune to strike, ,M there were too man eunemployed, and '" v the unions were not financially strong enough to stand a siege. OVERSEAS FREIGHTS SYDNEY, May 1. Reductions are announced in the overseas freights on sheepskins and the byproducts of tallow. The reduction on sheepskins is from l|d to per lb from .■ Australia to France. The reduction on ''etearine and oil is from 160 s to 130 s per ton. The freight on tin clippings has been reduced from 100 s to 75s per ton. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. SALARIES’ T3ILL. SYDNEY*, May 1. 1 The Coalition Party will discuss the - Salaries Bill to-day, and will endeavour to calm the anxieties of the recalcitrants. It ( ig stated that several of the latter, including Mr Hoskins, the late Whip, are fn- favour of retaliating on Ministers by an amendment for greater reductions in the Ministers’ salaries. REAR-ADMIRAL DUMARE6Q. THE NAVY’S COMPLIMENT. I?.' SYDNEY, May 1. i A : (Received May 1, ai; (.45 p.m.) What is regarded as one of the finest ‘ compliments the Navy can pay to a de- , parting commander was accorded to Rearji, admiral Dumaresq. After handing over the command to Commodore Addison on ■ board the warship Brisbane, he was rowed ashore ixf a boat manned by eight commanders of warships in part. LABOUR DAY IN BRISBANE. BRISBANE, May 1. (Received May 1, at 9.10 p.m.) ■ Labour Dav was celebrated as a close .holiday with'the usual unionists’ procession.