AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1924, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(UHTIIALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION, SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, November 19. The fourth series of wool sales has concluded anil all the best features of the previous day’s sales were strongly reproduced and improved. The level of values were well maintained, and the " demand was keen 'throughout. Greasy merino sold to forty two pence. FERNDALE TROUBLE SETTLED. SYDNEY, November 19. A settlement lias been readied in the l-'erndale dispute and the twelve men on the ship 11110 were objected to. left the ship unconditionally thus leaving the way ele.tr for the management to engage a new crew. _ MOB ETON BAY DISPUTE. SYDNEY, November ]9. The trouble on the Moreton Bay continues, the mangement temaining adamant in its refusal to employ :::.y of the dismissed stewards on any passenger ships. Consequently, all the Com molt I t]i Line steamers arriving in tlu* near future may be ■aid up hv the maritime Unions.

UNIONS’ DILEMMA. SYDNEY. November 19. The Water-Lie Federation's fight against tbe Shi] ping Bureau lias not pros* e:e 1 as tbe overtime strike lias been lifted so far as tbe Inter-State boats are concerned, but not in respect to overseas steamers which' almost exclusively employ Bureau labour. The Wat .'i -ider.s Federation and sea transput group of Unions are now hard put to it to find a solution of the position they have placed themselves in. ( THE SEAMEN’S DISPUTE. SYDNEY. November IS. On the application of. the Commonwealth Shipping Line, Justice Powers of the Federal Arbitration Court, has called itAt-omptilsory conference in connection with the dispute between the ® Commonwealth Line and the Seamen’s and Stewards’ Unions, to he held in -Melbourne on Friday.