AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23369, 8 December 1937, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE BASIC WAGE INCREASED MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. An additional expenditure of £500,000 a year by the Federal Min-„ istry is involved in the determination given by the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator, who granted an increase in the basic wage of all employees in the Federal public service of £l6 a year for adult males and £ll a year for adult females. VICTORIAN COUNTRY PARTY A MEMBER EXPELLED MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. The Minister of the Interior, Mr McEwen, has been expelled from the Victorian Country Party, the grounds being a failure to observe party rules in accepting a portfolio in the Lyons Ministry and a lack of loyalty to the party's endorsed parliamentary candidates at the Federal elections. SYDNEY COUNCIL ELECTION SYDNEY, Dec. 7. The counting of the primary votes in the city council election indicated the return of the Civic Reform Party wiih an unaltered majority. SYDNEY WOOL SALES SYDNEY, Dec. 7. (Received Dec. 8, at 1 a.m.) At the wool sales 10,040 bales were offered and 9470 sold, 1063 of them privately. There was wider competition from the Continent and Yorkshire, with good support from local mills. The catalogue included a number of specialty clips, which met a very keen demand. Top price was 28{d, creating a new season's record for greasy merino. THE TRUCK MURDER ACCUSED REMANDED MELBOURNE, Dec. 7. (Received Dec. 8, at 1 v a.m.) O'Keefe and McFarlane, who are being detained in connection with the truck murder, were further remanded until December 14. Detective McKeogh told the court that the police did not allege that the two accused killed Demsey, but would allege that both were present when the murder was committed.