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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1921, Page 1

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AL'SItt.U.tAN AM) N. 7.. CAItt.E ASSOCIATION. Sllll'i’lNG TRADE. MELKOritN'E, i>il. -0. Owing to the (lullm-sl of the interstate sliinoing trade it i" -t'teil the Canberra will be laid up. I'lte antlook seemed bright recently, hut the plague et lirishane I rust iat ed the hopes for sfviTal months GOOD WHEAT HARVEST. AD EI,.VIDE. Oct. 20 It is ollieially stated that the prere poctfi for the harvest, in South Australia . u .c eenerallv favourable for a yield well above the average. There is more, over an extra 22.">,000 acres under crop ill the State. Thus with fair weather for the remainder of the reason a yield approximating to last year’s is expected. A yield of 1M,237,000 bushels is reasonably expected.

or KSTION OK I'N'l'M I‘I.OVMKN 1. SVONK.Y. OO 20. riu- Notionalist Parly Conference to-iluv carried a rcsolut ion against the i Stale coinl'i'l of industries. It ;l |so resolved in fiivo'lr nf coutinning its stops to lioil its breach with ! the Progressive iKui-iiutsl Omrty. with til (.object of joining forces against the II mi i r Cover nmont at next elections. v noi’Ki.r.ss ori'isr SYiiNKY, Oct 2(1. A deputation of unemployed appealed t(, tlu 1 Sal finalist Parly I'oiilerciiee for assistance in obtainin': work. They State. l that they were making the appeal hceaisc the bib ear Part.' turned them ih'M n Tim Xa t ioiiiilist PaiTv Conference to-day passed a lesotuuoil adopting a nninher of schemes lor tic | rmuotii n ~f industrial peace. They included the abolition of the Hoard <<| Trade, lint with the retention of a living iviiLto on what the Party considered a more equitable basis. The Conference also resolved ill favour of the e.sinUlishnienL of Conciliation Hoards on the lines ol the W’liit Scheme; the encouragement of co-operation and , o-pa rluership; also i nil list ra 1 pensohs to workers permanently injured. The Conferenec decided lor a supplementary living allowance fiorn the nation inemnf- for widows with depcmlent eliildren. ineapaeita fed workers, and low wage earners with families; also for an extension of aid to house building. X.S.W. liASie WACIK I“KIiI'CTIOX. SY DN'KY. (let. 20. The X.S.W. Hoard of Trade have fixed the workers’ wages as cabled at a .eduction of ’ls pci wool'. The l.ahour Caucus tn-dny considered the basic wage question. The Caucus pointed out that the Hoard of Trade has this year erroneously calcnhited the living wage on figures referring to tile cost of living in the period between January and June, as it did previously. The Camus therefore decided that the (toverunient. lie requested to ask llie Hoard of Trade what, would have |. n its finding if it had followed the usual nrcetiee viz. the January to ,| i lie ealclilatiolis, ’l'll 1 Caucus unmoved of the action of die Coveriiment in not gazetting an v decrease in basic wages until the infurniation asked for has been ohtain- —