AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1921, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

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Bf TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. CONDITIONS IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, August 11. Unemployment is growing more jirevalent in Sydney and in other industrial centres The trouble is being somewhat in creased by jtho Federal Government discharging numbers of men at Cockatoo Dock, ancf at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory, and at other employments and further bjy the Governments of the various States economising through the public works outlay and in other channels. Similarly the private employers arc ohortening hands Owing to the slackness of business and constant, demands for higher wages, with shorter hours, they are reducing their expenses by the shortening of hands wherever it is possible. All Australian States are more or loss affected. There are unemployed demonstrations taking place in the various cities. The papers teem with appeals to supplement the already generms Government aid for the distressed crowds of workless people, and even for allegedly starving women and children. In Sydney there are high rents, which are forcing the families in the industrial suburbs to ptaek together like sardine®. MARRIAGE RATE RTSFS. ADELAIDE. Aug. U South Australia’s marriage rate for 1920 showed a great improvement, being by 19.33 per 1999 the highest recorded in Australia. COMMERCIAL NEWS. SYDNEY, August 11. At the wool sales here, there was a large and representative attendance of buyers and an average selection of wool which made late rates. The Profiteering Court lias increased the retail price of butter by three half-pence per pound. The Farmers’ Conference has adopted a resolution denouncing the fixation of prices of farming products. Goats are quoted: Algerian feed 3/6 per bushel; white feed 3/9 vo 4 j-; maize (yellow), 5/3; white 5/- potatoes (Tasmanian), £5/10/- to £B/10/- per ton: onions (Victorian), £4/10/- to £5 10/-. At Adelaide oats arc quoted; Algerian feed 2/(5 to 2/8 per bushel.