THE COMMONWEALTH.
AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
"By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 8, 9.55 a.m.) FALL IN PRICES. SYDNEY. January -3. According to a soft-goods retailer’s opinion, a general decline in prices is expected during the coming year. Warehouses regard a fall as inevitable. Boot manufacturers state that there has been a 20 per cent fall since J uly.
LARGE NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYED. It is estimated that there are 60,000 unemployed in the Commonwealth as a resplt of the strike, and 30.000 in New South Wales. STEWA RDS’ STRIKE. MELBOURNE, January 3. Renewed efforts to secure from Mr Hughes a tribunal liar© been unsuccessful. NAVAL POLICY IN THE PACIFIC. Mr Hughes refuses to enter into w controversy regarding naval co-opera-tion in the Paeifio, but denies the stories of negotiations between the Dominions and America, so far as Australia u> concerned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16320, 8 January 1921, Page 9
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