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STRIKE LOSSES
'Received this day at 9.20 a. pi.) SYDNEY" This" Day
The report presented to the Employers Federation meeting estimated the wages loss, in the Cpjnm<WpyeaJth during the past sis year by strikes totalled £5,073,000. The losses of production were ten millions.
FARMERS PARTY POLICY. SYDNEY, This Day. The farmers party election manifesto makes increased production the chief plank. It advocated admitting tools of trade and jute goods free of duty, free trade between the' States, and abolition' of restrictions on exportations abroad of primary productions. It favours the maintenance of a living wage and vigorous policy of immigration, with preference to agriculturists. It strongly opposes the proposed alteration of the constitution for giying (die jfgdep} % : vernment increased powers.
PROFITEERING. SDNEY, This Day. Notice was given in the Assembly of a bill to restrict profiteering, and to repress trusts and combines,
MELBOURNE, This Day. Oats are nominally 6/-; barley, English 5!9 to 6/-; Cape 5/- to 5/3: maize 8/3; potatoes £2-5 to £27; onions £l2 to £l2/10,1-. ! Hides—Heavier, good conditioned, a full farthing advance; kips, a farthing to halfpenny better.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1919, Page 2
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187AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1919, Page 2
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