AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1924, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[ny -TELEGRAPH —l-EK I>HESS ASSOCIATION.] OIL- WORKS CEASE. SYDNEY. May 1. Warden's Court granted a suspension lor three months of the operations of Xownos Oil Works, as owing to the present price of oil, and tiie rate of wages tiie workers are unable to profitably carry on. SIHPriXG DISPUTES. SYDNEY, May 1. Tho several union officials charged in connection with the alleged hold-up of .shipping, also Robert Pinkerton, Secretary of tiie Sydney lira licit of tho engine drivers’ union, who was charged with a similar offence, was granted adjournment till the 15th. to enable them to prefiare the ease. Counsel for Gilchrist. Watt and Sanderson intimated that High Court, af. fidavils were being prepared in connection with the prohibition cabled yesterday, and they would be made to a jui'v in the High Court. The hearing of the application from the Commonwealth Steamship owners, on the application of Fleming and Johnston, has been allowed to stand over generally, upon the respondents giving an understanding that they would do nothing either directly or indirectly to prevent the. running of ships lielonging to the members of tho applicant .association. Eleven more seamen have left t.lio Knroola and there arc now 2-5 vacancies and so far not it single application has been received to fill them. The owners ltavo written to the Seamen’s Union asking that 25 men he sent- to tho ship*