AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN

iObTMWiAN ANt> N.J. CABLE ASSOCIATION

tmoN OF farmers. SYDNEY, J«ne 26.

The N.S.W. primary producers announce that they have decided to make a strong stand against the Australian Workers Union, and to fight, the union with its owtt weapons of combination and solidarity. The producers are goiff" to be Organised into branches, in such a way that any threat by combined Labour as against one section >f group may lie immediately neutralised by co-operation on the part of other members of the combination of primary producing employers. It is stated that practically all the primary producers are interested in the move, which when finalised will comprise an elaborate amalgamation of interests to c”.nbat militant unionism, and also to improve the position of the producers in such matters as the distribution and marketing of their produce.

WG WIRELESS GAMBLE. MELBOURNE, Juno 26. Mr Brennan, Member of the Federal House of Representatives, who was appointed last December to the committee to investigate the proposed agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the Amalgamated Wireless Limited for a wireless service between Britain and Australia, has submitted bis minority report. Mr Brennan states that he opposes the agreement, as there is no authority to justify the belief that such a service could be maintained as an effective in-' strument of commercial communication. He recommends that the Commonwealth should instead control its own wireless department, pending the result of the trials now being prosecuted in various parts of the world. Mr Brennan adds: “The proposal is a gamble, in which the Commonwealth stands to lose heavily 'or, in the alternative, will share in remote and doubtful gains with private financiers. The death occurred on Saturday at Trentbam Military Hospital, of M.r William Johnston, the eldest son' of Mr and Mrs Richard Johnston, High Street, Grey month. Deceased, who wns 26 years of age, had been an inmate of various hospitals since his return from the front. He leaves, in addition to his parents, one brother and one sister.