GENERAL CABLES.
AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. United Press Association. SYDNEY, June 20. Hon. A. A. C. Cocks, State Treasurer, is again visiting Melbourne, at the request of lion. S. M. Bruoe, to endeavour to adjust the differences over the financial proposals between the Commonwealth and States. Captain J. Sealby, of the United States Shipping Board, lias arrived at Sydney. He says he is not surprised at the Commonwealth shipping nol paying as well as anticipated, as both in America and Canada shipping control is attended by losses, and America is gradually reverting to private control.
Nearly 300 tramway employees are being retrenched. It is holievcd that this is due to the reinlroduction of the A 8-hour week and the competition of motor 'buses.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15270, 21 June 1923, Page 7
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121GENERAL CABLES. Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15270, 21 June 1923, Page 7
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