AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'T’HTRA MAN’ AND NVZ CAIII.E ASSOCIATION. Ar ST 11A I. IA N \Y .'.T KK SI PF.I IS. lip I’ol PI OF A STRIKE. (pe.-eived this due at 3 a.m.i AIKi.DOI LXK. Oeloler 3il. 11 is rcpe-rliMl i hat an all Australia .. t ,ike of watersiders is imminent. The waterside,s have been tK toil to hold slop-work meetings o! ove-t'.venlv-foiir hours c„ every alternate Wednesday, throughout Australia. <•••')•- mon tile nil. of November. .He action is U-iug Odom with «• secthe ah.• 13,011 ••, the D'<.' w o: , j .aimin' Bureau through win, 1, C„in„i-,s arc employed. , n „, ugiiu t lacks otlicial cmlirniatm,,. SYDNF.Y TSK.MIM.OYKD. S YPN MY. Oct. 33. The unemployment agitation is again , here A Joint l nemheeoining aetiM mi.. . . , , neeitee have decided to ! oaign demanding the right p)' work, or.' failing work, the payment tl„. l asie wage or i>s crpm-alem m -M,”,’ am! commodities. The Con,i . (.vi'i’v politician mull e i hre:,!'ms iimi ■ 1 ... . mu supporting ilm-e demands w, I he mark ail and slanincd out o; 'po ItUM life.

COMBF ITITON KMMX. } .Received this day !,t d l , l '* mm-l IfRISBAM.. Oct. ol | Competition was keen at the wool ! j.,... t i|e best and medium 'j ranging from I*l to five per cent above | >T' ! '

T.DCAL LOAN'. APF.LAIDF. Oct. 31. Covcrn,ucm. is floating a local loan , f two millions at par. -V per cent, with

currency oi ton ye;u‘". IMMfOB ATI ON. SYDNF.Y, Oct. 31. So- Oco Fuller announced that 0»v----ernmeiit were taking steps to have despatched early in U>2l. two h.undied sYieeie.!!’.' selected men to comprise .t jivst hatch of settlers under the iminij prat ion seherne. PPRTHF.R COAL MINE STRIKES. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. M Strikes have oceurred at additional emvi mines in the northern fields and also at Ifelenshuish. A'miso'ik..,•'••!> o.sfiii men ity-f- Id'c