CABLE NEWS.
(Sydney Sun Special Service.) LONDON, March 28. • The brewery employees m Berlin have struck work m support of thejv demand for an eight-hour day. Sir Ronald Munro-Feygusop, GovernorGeneral designate of Australia, has been elected a Resident Fellow of the RoyaJ Colonial Institute, The first shipments of Australian fruit which arrived at Covent Garden were quickly disposed of at satisfactory prices. West Australian apples fetched 36s a case. Tho Ford Motor Co., of America, has decided that the men at the firm's Paris branch should participate m the profitsharing scheme under which Mr Ford is distributing £2,000,000. Every employee over 22 years old ia receiving £1 a day. Madame I\Jelba, who returned to London last wpefc from her tour of the United States, will shortly appear m "La Boheme" at Covent Garden. Miss Rosina Buckman will undertake the role of Musette, A big ooal strike is m progress m Yorkshire, where 20,000 miners have laid down their tools to enforce a demand for an increase of 5d a day. The outlook is very gloomy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 7
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175CABLE NEWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13352, 9 April 1914, Page 7
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