GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 4, 30 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telsgraph—Prose Association— Copyright The British rifle team has arrived at Fremantle. A message from Sydney states that Judge Beeby Ims opened the forly-four hour week inquiry. The New South Wales Cabinet has cided to raise a local loan of three millions for public works. It is reported fiom Sydney that the new twopenny postage stamps will be issued on October 10. A mossago from Home slates that members of tlie local agricultural societies seized tho Koyal estate at Simla Maria di ■ Capua,'near Naples, without opposition. The New South Wales Government is appointing a Judge to inquire. whether it is justified in increasing parliamentarians' salaries to .£750 a year. Tho chairman of the Australian Metal : Exchange, at the annual meeting, ' said that fourteen millions had been lost to j tho metal industry during the past eigh- ' teen months through strikes. , Tho Shipping Controller has telegraphed to tlie Mayor of Townsville intimat- ; ing that Townsville will bo cut out un- 1 le;s tho waterside workers guarantee to i abide by the Federal award. ) A New York message Btates that more -' ; manufacturers are following tlie example j of the Ford Company in cutting motorcar prices. The Willys Overland Com- l pany announces reductions of 100 to 200 j dollars per car; and Hudson and Essex ,j cars have been reduced by 200 to 150 dol- ] lars. A Bill lias been introduced in the West- ; era Australia Legislative Council for i the prevention o£ cruelty to animals. The- Bill inakc9 it illegal to work a horse more than forty-eight hours a week. Tho doping of racehorses is also prohibited. In connection with tho fatal railway smash at Huretville, near Sydney, at the ' beginning of August, it is stated that the ; driver, prior to starting on the last stretch, of the journey, reported that tho knuckle-pin of the draw-bar wa6 lost, ~ and made a temporary repair by utilising a fish-plate spanner to replace tho pin. A merchant marine policy, insuring to i United States trade the accessibility of all markets ill tho world, linked with a ■ i protective tariff system to foster domes- 1 tic production, is promised by Senator Harding, who says tlie new Shipping Department is tho greatest olement in the economic growth of the Uniitcd States. • Mr. J. Storey, Premier of Now South' j Wales, referring to the criticisms of the ; Profiteering Bill, said the Government was up against the serious problem of ; unrest, as the extra cost of living twas ; breeding discontent and a state of mind j J 0 * 1 paves the way to revolutibn. Ho i added: "Tho danger point has been ' ed. and action must be taken quickly." j The Eastern Goldfiolds branch of the i Labour Party has passed a resolution j that in view of tho indifference of the ' ' brewing trade union to tho appeals of 1 other unions to prevent victimisation, the I Workers' Council should consider the ad- ! visability of declaring all intoxicating • j liquors black, thereby putting nn end (o ' such industry; nnd also that tho council i should forthwith begin an active propa- ! ganda campaign with that object. !