GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17735, 8 December 1919, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

SYDNEY, December 6

A meeting of women formed an organisation demanding better conditions for domestic servants. They claim a fifty-six hour week and a minimum wago of 20/- per week, good accommodation, and the abolition of.the term "domestic servant' in favour of "domestic assistant."

The Government has decided that the Board of Trade award increasing the living wage by 17s weekely shall apply to the whole Public Service on salaries up to £525 per annum.

PERTH, pecember 6

The Legislative Council rejected Constitution Amendment Bill, whi'j'i passed Tic Lower Mouse, and provided Cor household suffrage as * :;e franchise for the Council, and tV. extension of the life of the present Parliament.

SYDNEY, December 6. Good falls of rain have bean «s. rerieiiced in the far west.

.Mr Ryan's finaneia' nv.iav.l in Queensland and the lar»i-; anl '.:•- creasing number of unoiMuovcd there, resulting allegedly ■'•■mi legislation passed during hi-, regime, are ] fling used as the main ivmmi'.ii by nc: Nationalist press a.ri Candidas to counter his lavish promises to electors, particularly' soldiers, if Labour is returned to power. Mr Ryan's jrrupUon Into Fcc'eral politics ir, detply resented by the Nat.ioniilis.ts, who freely charge his desertion from Federal politics to his having made the Northern State too hot for himself. MELBOURNE, Docember 0. The gas workers at Melbourne, Balla'at, Bendigo, and Geelong have struck, demanding increased wages. MELBOURNE, December 0. The Assembly carried an amendment to the Licensing Bill, allowing hotelkeopars to sell tea, coffee, cocm, and milk during prohibited hour;-. A new clause was added to the Health Bill, empowering the employment of doctors as Government or <nvjmcr,q)al officers, their duties to embrace attendance on persons entitled to it under any Friendly Society which entered into an agreeuien with the Minister of Health or municipality.