AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1920, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

[Australian & n.z. cable association] TRANSPORTERS CONFERENCE. SYDNEY, Oct. 11. The Transporters Federation is now convening a conference of all the unions in the federation. The federation states that the reply received from Mr Hughes in connection with the request for the abolition of the labour bureau on the waterfront was unsatisfactory. Therefore the only course open to the federation executive is to carry out the mandate of the federation, as all efforts to avert a crisis have been unavailing. The niovement of the workers is directed more against the oversea shipping lines than against the coastal lines. It is thought that, in the event of there being a strike, all the services, including the coal mines, may bo affected. LATEST POSITION. BRISBANE, 'Oct. 11. On the latest figures, Labour appears likely to secure forty seats, the Country Party 22, Nationalists 12, but postal and absentees votes arc still to be count, ed, and are capable of altering some doubtful scats. • . WATT STILL SILENT. ' MELBOURNE, October 11. Mr Watt (ex-Federal Treasurer) returned bv the Manuka. He declined to make any comment regarding his resignation when in London. GIVEN UP FOR LOST. SYDNEY, October 11. The search for the Amelia J. has Ijeen abandoned. The steamer Melbourne has returned 'to port. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, October 11. The wool sales here were continued to-day. The bidding was spirited for super combings, but cross-breds were unsaleable. Greasies realised 311 pence per lb. QUEENSLAND ''ELECTIONS. BRISBANE October 11. There is so far no alteration in the State election figures. The Premier, Mr Theodore, states he hopes that thirty-five Labourites will be found to have been returned when the Full figures are announced. COST OF CLOTHING. (Received This Day at 8.40' a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 12. A Commission inquiring into the cost of clothing reported they were unable to regard the returns on capital as excessive, as the total profit was not more than five per cent on the turnover. The report adds that the main cause of high prices is the high cost of goods to the trader, and relief to be Tound by cutting down his profits would be comparatively small. NOT GOiftG. SYDNEY, Oct. 12. .Mr Garden, Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, has decided not to attend the London Trade Unions Conference in November, as he is advised by the editor of the “Daily Herald,” London, not to go. TOTE INVESTMENTS. SYDNEY, Oct. 12. Totalisato'r investments for four days of the Randwick meeting were £311,000 an easy record.