AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS .

THE COTTON INDUSTRY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. Brisbane, Dec. 26. Addressing the annual meeting of the British and Australian Cotton Association, Ltd., the chairman (Sir Hugh Denison) said the company, which was served by the Australian Workers’ Union, had been cited for a new award to be made in respect to the industry, and if the union obtained anything like the claims it was making, it would definitely kill the cotton industry for ever in Australia. MOTOR-CAR FATALITIES. Melbourne, Dec. 27. A motor-car contaning seven passengers overturned at Allendale as the result of the wheel collapsing. The driver, Percy Sutherland, was killed, and Samuel Baxter, Alfred Gorcoron and Percy Hatton were sent to hospital seriously injured. Adelaide, Dec. 27. Mrs. Fitzgerald and her four-year-old daughter were drowned in the Swan reach of the Murray River as the result of a motor collision. The oar following the one in which they were travelling bumped into their rear and both cars fell into the river. The occupant of the second one was rescued.

RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES. Sydney, Dec. 27. The inter-State committee representing the Australian Railways Union, is preparing a new log revising the wages and conditions affecting 90,000 railway employees with an annual salary bill at present amounting to ten million sterling.