AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SUGAR COMES DOWN. MELBOURNE, July 21. 11l the House of Representatives Mr Rodgers announced that the retail price of sugar would be reduced to five pence per pound from the first of November.

DANGER OF MINERS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY. July 21. The Coal Tribunal resumed its sittings to-day. One of the miners’ representatives stated that if the owners’ claim for the thirty-three and onethird reduction of present wages was hard before the men's claims, there would he industrial trouble all over Australia. KKAIMIS MURDER, Sydney, July 20. A bunch of keys were discovered a few yards from the bank, establishing the fact that the murderers must have decsmned a few seconds before the police arrived. BIG LIBEL CLAIM. SYDNEY, July 21. Four Aldermen of Katoombn Municipal Council have issued writs claiming damages totalling £I2.(XX) against “Smith’s .Wckoly” ’newspaper foil alleged libel: WOMEN’S WAGES. SYDNEY, July 19 Giving evidence at the Board of Trade inquiry into women’s basic wage, a representative of the United Secretaries’ Association stated that since 1920, the cost of commercial board and lodgings for women in certain eases had increased by ten to thirty per cent. N.S.W, LABOUR. SYDNEY, July 20. A meeting of union secretaries repudiated Mr J. S. Garden’s (Secretary Trades Council) proposed scheme of irritation strikes and go-slow generally. The Sydney Labour Council adopted the report recommending the go-slow scheme as counter to the Government’s contemplated legislation abolishing the forty-four hours week and reducing wages.