WORLD’S NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11068, 15 February 1929, Page 6

WORLD’S NEWS

MEN RESUMING AT TIMBER MILLS VOLUNTEER LABOUR OFFERING United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. S\DNEY, February 14. Employers m the timber trade report that at least ten Sydney firms are working full time on a forty-eight hour week. As the result of the call issued yesterday for free labour, many applications have been received from men seeking employment. MELBOURNE, February 14. Incendiarism is feared as the cause of a fire which destroyed two thousand feet of timber stacked on a wharf, which carters and drivers refused to handle. At one time adjacent stacks containing a million feet were threatened. SYDNEY, February 14. Air F. Corke, secretary of the Suburban Timber Merchants’ Association, stated to-day that the number of written applications for volunteer positions in timber yards exceeded all expectations, but the employers were not engaging any volunteer labour for a few days. The shortage of timber bn building contracts was throwing carpenters and joiners out of work in all States. The number of unemployed is daily increasing by hundreds. '“GRAZIERS FOOLS TO SELL MERINO SHEEP.” SYDNEY, February 14. The Graziers’ Association at Junee passed a resolution urging the Commonwealth Government to prohibit the exportation of Australian Merino sheep. Mr T. Fitzpatrick, who has juse returned from a world tour, declared the graziers were fools to sell Merinos to outli Africa, where the flocks had increased 36 per cent since 1924. ADMIRAL TOGO SERIOUSLY I'LL TOKIO, February 14. The veteran Admiral Togo, hero of the Russo-Japanese war, is seriously ill. Fears are entertained tor the reason that his illness is due to age. LUXURIOUS LINER. LONDON, February 14. The White Star liner Olympic is sailing for New York to-day, after one of the most expensive overhauls in trans-Atlantic history. She gave 2000 men four weeks’ work and has now a well appointed cinema and a luxurious parquet- dance floor. Other additions include 16 new' state rooms in the styles of Louis XVI and Queen Anne, and 53 private bathrooms. GETTING OUT OF TABUL. RUGBY, February 13. Bad weather with snow prevented further evacuation from Kabul yesterday. On Monday four Air Force Victoria machines brought fifty-eight passengers to Peshawar, comprising 50 British Indian subjects, including 38 women and children, five Germans, including two from the Legation, one Persian, and two Afghans. OIL SHARES SLUMPING. SYDNEY, February 14. Following an official publication here regarding the Blenheim oil bore, a further slump in shares occurred to-day, sellers reducing their limits to £2, without elicitiuy a response. Taranaki shares dropped three halfpence to 3s 10Jd.