AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1921, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

VARIOUS CABLED HEWS

lUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

WHEAT AREA

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day

Owing to continued wet weather there are indications that an area sown in wheat this season will be considerable below the precious season.

A PROTEST. BRISBANE, This Day. Archbishop Duhig when opening the new presbytery declared it was a parlous state of affairs that Parliament should exert such tyranny as would restrict the necessary supply of skilled labour. The schools were turning out an army of clerks and labourers and when Australia wanted skilled labourers she would have to go abroad for them. It seemed as if people escaped from one ( lass of tyranny they only come under another. Referring to the re. strietion of workman’s energies to a given limit he declared: If this were a generally accepted idea, it denoted neither honesty nor efficiency. ,

CONDEMNED

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) HOBART, This Day

Three Labour members of Parliament addressing a large open air gathering strongly condemned the recent decisU of the all-Australia Labour Conference, who favoured a policy of direct action to overthrow the capitalistic system. They declared the proposed amalgamation of all unions into one big, union with control of all Industry was dangerous.