AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

APbTCUI'MN AND NOABI.B ABBOCICTJON. boilermakkkh dismissed. SYDNEY, September 13. gome LOO boilermakers were dismissed nt Cockatoo Island Dockyard for refusing to work the rivetting machines. AVork at the Island has been almost brought to a standstill. The men stated that their reason for their refusal to work the machines was that while so many members of the onion were unemployed,' all work should he done by band, thus providing work for a greater number of men.

STATE TRAAVLERS. SYDNEY, Sept. 13. The Public Service Hoard has commenced an inquiry into ti e State trawling industry, to ascertain whether it can b° profitably continued. AIrLA HEN'S TEAM. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY. Sept. 14. Accord in ft to the altered itinerary, MrLnren’s team arrives in Perth on 23rd, sails for New Zealand on 30th, and arrives at Brisbane on 21st February. They will play return matches ea route to Adelaide, from which place they will finally embark on the Ormonde on tilth .March. -IS HOUR WEEK. SYDNEY, Sept. 14. The Emergency Council of Action at the Trades Hull decid’d to recommend the various industrial groups to refuse to work on Saturdays, and, in the event of 48 hours being imposed, the unions to refuse to work overtime. NAURU .MANDATE. .MELBOURNE, Sept. 14 lion AV. -M. Hughes says the allegations in connection with Nauru, circulated before the Mandates’ Commission, were based largely on articlewritten in Australian newspapers, reproduced in Germany and on the Con tinent, and they are without fountlnlion. FEDERAL TAXATION. MELBOURNE, Sept. 14 In the House of Representatives the Land Tax Amendment Bill, in th< direction abolishing the twenty pe icnt super tax was read a first time. WHEAT G UA R ANT EE. MELBOURNE, Sept. 14 Urn W. M. Hughes has announce* that the wheat guarantee during tie coming season would he three shilling per busliel, with no nllownncp ft? «gh pence for charges-