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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1918, Page 3

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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) BIG WAGES WANTED. f (Deceived This Day at 10.35. a.m.) j SYDNEY, This Day. , j It is stated that the delay in socuriug j a crow for tho Moeraki was caused by the iiromen demanding wages of £1 1 daily. i .

FORTY-HOUR WEEK. SYDNEY, This Day. The Amalgamated Society of Engineers are claiming 20% increase in wages

and a forty-hour week. three influenza ships. SYDNEY, This Day. 1 Three fresh ships are affected with influenza in quarantine. There arc now eight vessels, and 1,784 persons detain- j ed. ' I

GREAT BUSH FIRES RAGING. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Great bush fires, causing extensive damage, are raging in Muugindi district. FEDERAL SHIP PROFITS. j MELBOURNE, This Day. j In the House of Representatives, Mr Poynton stated the Federal ships showed a profit for the first year of £986,392 | THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. j

MELBOURNE This Day. .Mr Bruce Smith announced the intention to move next session that the scat of Government be moved to Sydney for twenty years; at the end to twenty years to revert to Melbourne MR JENSEN IN DEFENCEMELBOURNE This Day. Mr Jenson in a speech, lasting Hire hours, traversed the Commission’s report on the purchase of the Shaw wireless. He declared the findings wer© unfair, misleading and unsupported by evidence. 'He added that he is now considering on whicß side of the House he would sit. | CENSORSHIP RELEASED. | (Received this dnv at 10.15 a.m.) j MELBOURNE' This Day. | In tho Senate, Mr Pearce stated t.io censorship would bo" reTbased to tho samo extent as in Britain and America.