AUSTRALIAN.
SYDNEY) Aug. 1. The Board of Trade decided not, to alter the basic wage, which remains at £4 2s for adult males and £2.ls .6d for adult females. (Received August 2, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY,.August 2. The Sydney police are being kept increasingly busy. Motor car thefts and robberies are becoming of daily occurrence, and the week-end list is consistently heavy. • As a plague precaution city rat catchers are conducting a series of intensive driyes in the city, in .addition to unceasing trapping and poisoning. During the six months of the current-year the numbers killed were comparatively low, showing that the pest- is being kept well in' hand. 1 The Federal Ministry has placed £6090 on the- estimates for the current yehr for the purpose of research in the cause of cancer. It has been decided to appoint a- special commission to consider the present system of health legislation and administration; also to inquire into the general public health of the Commonwealth. 1 MELBOURNE,, August 2. According' to a statement tabled in the House of Representatives, subsidies amounting to £140,532 have been paidduring 1924 in respect to frozen beef, canned beef, and live cattle exported.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16498, 2 August 1924, Page 7
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