VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1921, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN-

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. AUSTRALIAN AND N’.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A HOT DAY. SYDNEY, March 26. Good Fridfly was the hottest day since December, 1919. The thermometer was 99.2. The Show’s attendance was affected, being 101,000 compared with 110,000 in 1920. At the Show sales : there were sold on account of the Carlyle Friesian Company (Palmerston North), two Friesian heifers for 130 and Ml guineas. Four hundred guineas were paid for a milking Shorthorn hull, Guardsman Darbalara by Alexander, a brother of Kiama, to the Scottish Australian Investment Cov. BOATING FATALITY. SYDNEY, March 26. Four men in a boat were overtaken by a southerly while in tin* surf at Gronuila and the boat capsized, one being drowned. REDUCTION OF WAGES. BRISBANE, March 26. Ti e General Manager of Mount Mor„nn Gold Mining Cov. conferred with representatives of the unions and explained that owing to the perilous plight () f the copper market, all employees Horn himself to the office, hoy employed, • lvt ,si choose between a reduction ot wages by thirty per cent, and unemployment. It is understood the l nion contemplated a reduction of wages, but n t twentv per cent. HOBART. Man'll 26. Miami Lyell Coy. submitted a statement to employees showing the cost of working and price of copper, and stig- ' gosted the introduction of an oightyoight hour fortnight and reduction ot wages hv ten to fifteen per cent. AUSTRALIAN CATTLE. 1 THE NEW ZEALAND EMBARGO. I SYDNEY, March 25. ' At the annual meeting of the I nited * purebred Dairy Cattle Breeders’ Association. it was stated that the \ ietorian brooding souiotius \\f*iv ananfxing a petition, and desired New South Wales to do likewise, with the object ' of having removed the New Zealand embargo on Australian cattle, "liich was imposed to prevent the possibility j of introducing cattle diseases to the Dominion. The matter was referred to the executive'for early attention. TRADE WITH GERMANY. ’ SYDNEY. March 25. Mr Hughes confirmed the reported sale of wheat to Germany, stating that “with all the world again trading with Germany, it was useless tor Australia to imagine she was the only nation in l stop. Tin* question of a genera! resumption 1 of trade with Germany would he submit led to Parlimeiit at an early date. Mr Hughes also announced that Parliament would decide whether he would | attend the Imperial Conference. L> The Hon W. F. Dunn, State Minister for Agriculture, stated that Germany hail been one of Australia’s host wheat customers. Foreign sales had averaged its 3<l per bushel, tree on hoard.