Commonwealth Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 87, 17 August 1923, Page 6

Commonwealth Cables

Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.45 a.m.) Sydney, August 1". The Farmers’ Conference reviewed the report on the operation bt the. voluntary wheat pool for the 192223 season. The report stated that renewals into the pool dor 1922-23 amounted to 11,650,523 bushels from 749“ growers, compared with 22,785.1 555 bushels, from 12,220 growers in the previous year. The Employers-’ Conference passed a motion urging the Federal amt State Governments to amend the existing System of arbitration, which is responsible for the overlapping of jurisdiction, and to confine the federal Court to purely federal industries, such as shipping and shearing. After condemning excessive taxation, which they state was inimical to the development' of the industry, the conference ended. Af. the dinner to the delegates, the key-note of the speeches on all sides was the menace of industrial unrest, and the desirableness of employers and employees' meeting at a roundtable conference to discus's their gnevkneet. *, '

! Melbourne, August 16. Members of the Science Conference held an open field-day in the couritry. Adelaide, August 16. In, the Australian open golf championship, Ham (New Zealand) and Popplewell are leading, each with totals of 151. ; ■ Sydney, August 17. The recent Government ukase against the holding of street meetings, and the subsequent arrest and refusal' to release a .number <pf offenders, is strongly resented by the Communist' Party and Labor union#, who are arranging to hold, demonstrations in defiance of the law. The Labor Council resolved to raise a fund',to provide for, the sustenance of dependants of anyone arrested in connection with the campaign of defiance. ■, A fire on the vessel Niels Nielsen Was subdued, the damage being confined to fifty thousand feet of laths which were stored in spare bunker. , i Melbourne, August 17. , , The Postal Rates Reduction Bill passed both Houses. It will probably operate.from Ist. October.