AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

.MEAT WORKS DESTROYED. [BY TEL EC P.Al'II —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] SYDNEY, .March I. A fire destroyed the Tihhereeneh .Meat Works, near Narrahri, the damage being many thousands. NO AIONEY TO PAY EAIPLOYEES. HOBART, March !. The Legislative Council is delaying the passage of the Appropriation Bill granting new supply to tho Government and as a result when temporary Government employees went for their wages on Saturday they were informed that no money was available to pay them. The Premier is considering what action to take. STATE SHIPPING TO BE ABOLISHED. HOBART. .March I. The Stale Shipping Department will probably he abolished at the end of the month and all ellieials have been notified that from the end of the month their Service- will not he required. UNIONIST’S AND NON-UNIONISTS. HOBART’. March I. A mass meeting of employees of the Electrolytic Zinc Company at Zcehan adopted a resolution refusing to work with non-unionists after tho 10th; and that all unionists leave the works on that date if the non-unionists arc not dismissed. RINDERPEST STAMPED OFT. PERTH, March I Tlie Rinderpest outbreak has been stamped out arid restocking is in fiiTl swing in the killed out areas. ART UNION CONTROL. BRISBANE, .March I. Following on numerous complaints of the methods and frequency of art unions conducted in Queensland the Government is gazetting drastic regulations governing the granting of permission lo conduct art unions, rallies and guessing compel it ions.