QUEENSLAND FARMERS
ENORMOUS LOSSES FROM DROUGHT. (Press Association—l'y Telegraph—Copyright.) BRISBANE. March 3. (Received March 3, at 5.5 p.m.) The Arbitration Court reserved judgment in an application by the Australian Workers’ Union and other organisations for an increase of the basic wage from £4 5s a week to £4 15s. The Government and the Graziers’ Association opposed the application. Counsel for the Graziers’ Association, addressing the court, said that ti e estimated loss of sheep in the recce drought in Queensland was £6,000,000, with proportionate losses of cattle.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20039, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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