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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1921, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN.

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. SMALLPOX. | OUTBREAK ON STEAMER. (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.; SYDNEY, April 13 The steamer Bacchus from Calcutta, after landing" a suspicious case at -Melbourne, has arrived in Sydney. There are six cases of smallpox in a mild form on the vessel. All aboard have been quarantined. j REDUCED CARGO RATES. i SYDNEY, April 13 j Reduced cargo rates will operate I throughout the Commonwealth to-day. j FORTY-FOUR HOURS WEEK. ; (Received This Day at 11.31) a.m.) | SYDNEY, April 13. i Mr F. W. Hughes, managing direc- j tor of the Combing Spinning and j Weaving Company, giving evidence he- ; freo the forty-four hours week enquiry j into the leather industry, predicted J bankruptcy for Australia if forty-four | hours were adopted generally. The ! world would never recover by a re- ; duction of working hours. Compared j with April 1920, he estimated the pas- j tornl assets had fallen to the extent of ; three hundred and fifty millions. MR HUGHES’ DEPARTURE. j MELBOURNE, April 13. j Mr Hughes probably sails for Eng- j land by tin* Sonoma on the 28th.' j ARCHBISHOP OF MELBOURNE, j MELBOURNE, April 13. j Dissatisfaction is expressed at the mi- j official announcement that Archbishop j Cody re of Toronto lias been appointed i Archbishop 'of Melbounre. Opinion j favoured an Australian. ;

WOOL SALES. j !. (Roceved this day at 11.30 a.m.) | | MELBOURNE, April 13. j : Sir Jolpi Higgins stated the failure | of Bawra wool was a minor matter. It j was a hit of a set-hack but as the current price of wool was far below the ! cost of production they must have a re- ! serve and must obtain a price to cover ! the cost. He expresses the opinion j : that it will succeed eventually, as buy--1 ors must operate and they .cannot get J wol elsewhere. i The executive of the wool selling j brokers decided that there he no wool ! • sales in Australia this month, owing to i 1 negotiations by Bawra with colonial f wool merchants, (t is understood the v hanking section is the stumbling fc block. " i _ ARBITRATION COURT. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) 1 BRISBANE, April 13. 1 The Arbitration Court refused to nl- [ * low Mount Morgan Company to with--1 draw a. plaint for cancellation of existing awards and granted an application 0 I,v unions that the Company’s hooks and documents he produced to the 5 Court to ascertain the correctness or 6 otherwise of the statement made by the " Manager of Mt. Morgan at the Con- ’ ference.