AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION REDUCED WAGES. MELBOURNE. June 7. The Federal Arbitration Court in the plaint of the Amalgamated Society of I Engineers against Adelaide _ Steamship Compaiiv and others, Justice l’oweis varied the award given hy Justice Higrius la-t year by reducing engineers basic wage from £4 4s to £3 17s and apprentices wages hy 2s to Gs wce-Ht. The Judge declared the evidence submitted to the Court proved, beyond doubt, that if Australian industries i were to compete in the world’s markets the rates previously awarded could not he paid. If they were paid, the m- | dustries could not he earned on profitably, or even carried on at all. ; value" oTagthcttlture. BRISBANE, June Major Belcher. Chairman of the Empire Exhibition Mission, ompiiasisetl the value of agriculture to trade devoJlopment. Tie stated it would tinnseend ai 1 1 other industries. AA bile ti ai oiling from Albany To Brisbane he bar. Hot- seen any decent cattle I must cut out'the scrub bull, but A us-I tralia bad the finest sheep m the | They could land meat successfully m , home markets, but failed to sell it. be- j cause it was not sufficiently advertised. He advised them to follow s I example of imposing a moderate tax of . one shilling to half a crown per head ( on cattle, for a fund to boost Alls- j Dalian products. 1 i CANCER RESEARCH- j SYDNEY. June 7. j j With a donation of seven thousand j J already in hand towards it- Cancer Re- ! scroll Faculfv o l ' Afcdicine. the Sydney University is appealing to the public l„ raise thirty thousand sterling, below wl i.li mu'i'i it is ern-ddered impossible to tackle an undertaking requiring the services of men skilled in all branches i of science. i

! SYDNEY’S VALUE. /Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 8. The Town Clerk reported to the Finain e Committee of the City Council that the unimproved capital value of the city had almost doubled in the last thirteen years. The value in 1908 was 119,021.000 and ill 1921 it was £30.887,000. LOTTERY TICKETS. SYDNEY. June 8. .Air Bavin replying to Mr A 1 Corinack regarding the casket lottery, slated his only desire was to sac the law observed. He admitted that the sale of Tatteisalls tickets was idegal. So also was .stealing, but neitlit I w would be broken with his consent. TIMBER .MILLERS REQUEST. MELBOURNE, June ,8. A deputation from timber merchants and millers asked Air Groom for the im-ii'-dintc reconsideration hy tlu« Arbitration Court, of iho forty-four hour week award, which was ruining the industry. - nless longer hours weic restored, and oilier concessions curtailed, the indus,ry would fail a prey to foieign competition, anil have generally to closedown. .Mr Groom pi utilised the earliest possible consideration. J A BAN’S FLEET. SI DNEY, June 8. •The “Herald’ referring to the Japanese reported naval programme states .japan is capable of completing vessels in three years. The “Herald'' points out that the Washington TronLy -whilst considerably lessening competition in canitnl ships, made < misers and light (rinsers factors of increased importance. It suggests ttia-t .Japan has opened competition in the Pacific and in the event of war the first attack w.uii'd lie on trading vessels. Four, t"ii thousand toil, ships cabled oil the 7th., mounting eight inch guns are designed up to the extreme limit proposed at Washington, and will make the strongest light cruiser squadron the world. Twenty-four, fifteen hundred tunnel's will ceus-e the greatest eolicer mis presumably thev are intended for commerce raiding. The article concludes: “The Empire must maintain an adequate light cruiser squadron in the Pacific.” Rear Admiral ( re-swci'l in an art'cl" i lithe Adelaide “Register” issues a w'"tiin.r against further naval retrenchments. He -savs Admiral Diimarcsqn's parting message was •.poke" hv one who knew his business in every narlieidar. I fad it not been for the Ausralian Fleet at the conini.'iirciiiont of the war. trade would disappear from Australian and New /"■•lam! ('east-. Shipping in till the harbours would have been sunk nr burned and troops from Australasia would have been prevented from joinin'* the Empire. The coastal towns from Townsville to Perth would have been shelled. 'The damage caused might easil" he estimated at between fifty and a hundred millions, whilst tin* Germans might have d unarded two .hundred millions before moving on. LABOUR «OUABRI ''’B. SYDNEY. June 8. Tbe Labor Conference was the seen" of more recriinina tioiis between e\Afini ters Mutch and T.azzstridc. I mtgli’lin denies McGirr's charges cabled yesterday. aad urged the aonoinjuieiit of a soe-i'd committee to inquire into lie true position. The Conference ad'ourned iill U"xt day. without reaching a tinalitv on the subject. A BIG ESTATE. MELBOURNE. June 8. The Victorian estate of the late AY. S. ilowrd Smith, is valued at £345.- • 180.