AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16822, 21 August 1920, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

BASIC WAGE TOO HIGH AT £2OO. Per Press Association. MELBOURNE, August 20. Mr. Justice Starkey, deputy-president of tho Federal Arbitration Court, refused to grant £2OO as the basic wage for Government servants, saying £l5O was enough for single men to live comfortably on. He would add £BO or £35 as an allowance for married men.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. VARIOUS~NEAVS ITEMS. SYDNEY, August 20. Mrs. Barton won the women’s golf championship. The State Labour Party has cabled tho “Council of Action” congratulating them on their attitude regarding Poland and pledging the support of the Australian Labour Party. Tho University Senate has created a new' chair, appointing Mr. C. J. Brennan associate Professor of Gonnau and Comparative Literature. Tho Seamen’s and Firemen’s Unions refuse to take the Fiona to sea, stating the stokehold is undermanned, Tho Fiona belongs to the Colonial Sugar Company, and is employed on the Fiji-Auokland-Sydnoy run. MELBOURNE, August 20. The Victorian harvest is expected to total fifty million bushels.