AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, June 20. The wool sales of the 1923-24 series have closed. The market was iirm for all qualities except inferior. Competition was keen, all sections operating. Scoureds were irregular and at times showed a fall of 5 to 10 per cent. Greasy merino sold to 3(>;| pence. CHOPPING .MATCH. MELBOCRNE. June 19 In ••fourteen-inch standing: lug challenge wood-chopping contest, dim Walker (Tasmania) defeatd Mick Keating (New Zealand). WAGES AT NACRE. MELBOURNE. done 20. Mr lSriiee in the House of Representatives said the Chinese labourers at Nauru were paid 22s monthly ; hut. in addition, there was a bonus of four shillings monthly, free food, housing and clothes. Coolies and Kanakas worked 54 hours a week. Chinese mechanics 19.) and Europeans 17. The total population consisted of 000 Chinese 1.179 Nauruans, 110 whites and one Chinese woman. Their annual salaries amounted to £31500.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1924, Page 3
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151AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1924, Page 3
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