AUSTRALIAN.
VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS ICSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. 44 HOUR WEEK COST. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 24 f - Charles Hoskins, the principal of Hoskins iron and steel works at Litiigow, commenting on the effect of a 44 hours week, said it would be a calamity for New South Wales. It meant a reduction by one-twelfth of the wprKmg'“*" t '' a time. Their weekly pay roll was twelve thousand, which meant a loss of a thousand. With other industries controlled by the firm, the total annual losses would be seventy thousand.
A GOVERNOR’S VIEWS. SYDNEY, May 24. Governor Davidson, speaking at Lithgow, scouted the suggestion that fche-c were disloyalists in Australia- The people who flew red flag were very few. He favoured such people having tree speech. SHIPPING LIAD UP. MELBOURNE, May 24 Owing to the shipping slump, MiO Commonwealth have been compelled u> withdraw their fleet of cargo steamers and coastal cargo trade steamers, Which ate now laid up at Sydney.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1921, Page 2
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166AUSTRALIAN. Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1921, Page 2
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