THREATENS TO UPSET CUPS OF TEA
Received Tuesday, 12.44 a.m. CANBERRA, Nov. 4. A strike at the Parliamentary refresliment rooms, of the ehief eook and six of liis assistants, threatens to upset elaborately prepared plans to entertain hundreds of priests at afternoon tea after the opening of Parliament on Wednesday by the Duke of Glouceflter. Tlie eook and liis assistants are demanding that their wages be paid free of tax but Parliamentary officials deelitied to aeeede to the rerpiest on the ehief ground that it would be a breaeh of tlie wrnge pegging regulations. Efforts are now being made to obtain cooks in Rydney and bring them to Canberra by plane in time for the gafhering.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1946, Page 5
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