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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1922, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. SYDNEY, Aug. 19. . The Hydro Majestic building contents were insured for C 50.000. MELBOURNE, Aug. 19.

Taxation exemption proposals are expected to apply to the returns recently sent in. Mr Hughes at a meeting or nations said Government would tolerate no more' censure motions or obstruction. The Ministry was pie, pared to face the electors after the budget was passed, unless the tactics were discontinued.

The Senate ratified the trade agreement between Australia and Now Zealand.

MELBOURNE, August 20. The Victorian Assembly bye-election for Gippsland South was .won by Mr West (Nationalist), who defeated the Farmers and the Independent Nationalists’ candidates.

i LABOUR’S RETALIATION. : SYDNEY. ’August 17. I The conference of iron trades repreI sentatives decided to adopt the Labour j Council’s go-slow scheme, in the etent i of the employers securing an exten- | sion of the working week to fortyI eight hours.

j FEDERAL POLITICS. MELBOURNE. August 19. I Speaking at Bendigo. Mr Hughes said j the Government would not lower the j wages of sugar workers in order to rei duee the price of sugar. He referred

1 to tile obstruction Government- was ; experiencing and said if unable to carry 1 out its programme he would go to the I country.

• SYDNEY, Aug. 21. The number of unemployed for July totalled forty-five hundred in the .Metropolis, and seventy-live hundred in the country, a decrease of 500 since June. SYDNEY, Aug. 21. Mr Hyrie in vicdicatiiig .Mr Hughes’ action in acquiring the Commonwealth line, Kijid the Government on the whole was millions sterling on the right side of the ledger as a result of owning their own vessels.

Scott Fell, a member of the Assembly, said the Bay vessels though costing 01,250,000, were not worth 0350,000.