THE COMMONWEALTH.
_ AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Received September 6, 10.30 a.m.) IRONWORKERS’ HOURS. SYDNEY, September C. The majority of the engineers at Cockatoo Garden Island and’ Mort Dock continued work on Saturday, but tho boilermakers' downed tools. Further developments are expected to-day,, when tho ironworkers will be requested to sign an agreement'for a forty-eight hours week. AUSTRALIA NOT OBSOLETE. _ Sir Joseph 'Cook, Minister for tRe Navy, and tho Hon E. D. Milieu denied the statements that tho warship Australia was obsolete and was about to go out of commission. Sir Joseph Cook added that the idea of scrapping her was absurd. PEACE LOAN. Tiro amount subscribed to the Peace Loan is £11,000,000. The loan closes to-day, and £14,000.000 is still required. A LEAKY SCHOONER. The schooner Louis Theriault, hound from Adelaide to Auckland, was towed into Sydney in a leaky condition. NO OVERTIME, The wharf labourers reaffirmed tho decision not to work overtime. SHORT HOURS. t' u CASTLE, September 6. Coaltnmmers decided not to work after tour o clock each Afternoon, Tho decision involves serious shipping ( ] e .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20044, 6 September 1920, Page 7
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