AUSTRALIAN.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

AC&IUAI lAN AND N .l. UABLJC ABHOGI/TION. STOP-WORK MEETINGS. SYDNEY, Sept. (5. . As ail outcome of a special meeting the Council of the Miners’ Federation which endorsed the action oi the miners’ representatives on the Coal Tribunal in refusing to proceed with the further consideration of the owners’ claims for a reduction in wages, the miners at tho collieries throughout the Commonwealth will hold a stop-work meeting on Thursday to discuss whether the men’s representatives shall withdraw from the Tribunal. WOOL TRADE. SYDNEY, September 0. Air Jlernar Tripp has returned from the C.A.WA.R. Wool Conference at Melbourne. He sails in the Ma-ungn-nui to-morrow. On reaching Wellington he will submit Sir John Higgins’s scheme for the stabilisation of crossbred wool to the New Zealand Wool Committee.

AIR COMMERCIALS. (Received this day at 11.80 a.in.A SYDNEY, September 7. Three commercial travellers are inaugurating an airship tour of southern and central towns on the 9th. Samples of many lines will be carried. The tour is expected to last six weeks, after which (v tour of the northern rivers is contemplated.

JUDGES SALARIES. ADK.RYIDJC, Sept. 7. In tht* Assembly, ft Bill was passed j increasing the .salary of the Chief Jus- i tiee from £2,000 to £2,000 and of j\iisnc Judges from £1,700 to £2,000. o , SUGAR DUTY. MELBOURNE, September 7. George Pritchard (Secretary of the Australian Sugar Producers Association) giving evidence before the Federal Sugar Inquiry, favoured the imposition of a, duty of £4 per ton in order effectively to protect the sugar industry. It was impossible for Queensland growers to sell to jam makers to enable the latter to compete favourably with overseas markets. j