AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
AUSIItALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EFFECT OF COKE STRIKE. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY. llarch 27. A further conference of the parties to the coke strike has been convened for to (h>v. If it fails, the Lithgow iron winks \( ill he seriously attect-ed and may he compelled to close, 1 litis idling twelve hundred employees. For the past two months two blast furnaces at the works have been closed down through a shortage of coke, lmt owing to a reserve of basic steel, the average number of employees were, kept on. Stocks have now dwindled to such an extent that it may he necessary to close the works unless coke supplies are obtained. DUTY ON MAIZE REIMPOSED. MELBOURNE, March 26. The Tariff Board lias reimposed the anti-dumping duty on maize which was lifted some months ago. OAOD CONSPIRACY CASK. MELBOURNE, March 27. The live accused in the .Murray Caul escape case were found, not guilty and discharged.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1924, Page 1
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161AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1924, Page 1
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