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IUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION
BASIC* WAGE CLAIM FAILS
MELBOURNE, June 1
The Federal Public Service Arbitrator lias rejected a claim by the Public Service Unions for a basic wage lor all adult employees of .to IBs Bd weekly. He said that, if granted, it would involve the Government in an additional annual expenditure of between four and five millions. The Union’s claim was based on the finding of the Commonwealth’s basic wage Commission. EXPLANATION OF TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, June 1. At the inquest on the victims ot the aeroplane smash on -May 23 (when three persons, pilot Hubert Ross, and two passengers, Miss Jessie Dorman, and Cyril Harris, were killed by an Avro machine crashing in the back yard of a. house at Port Melbourne) an expert in evidence advanced the theory that the heel of Miss Dorman’s shoe jammed the rudder bar, causing the machine to fall into a left spin. Witness added Miss Dorman’s heel was almost torn off.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1921, Page 1
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164VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1921, Page 1
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