AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1925, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[BY TELKGIIArn —PEU PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AN EARTHQUAKE. SYDNEY, Jan. 8. A slight earthquake was recorded today in the city. There was no indication of the direction whence it came. WARSHIP REQUISITIONED. HOBART. Jan. S. Until the shipping trouble is over, tbc destroyer Ution will be eommis.sie.n•cd lo carry mails to Sydney. Tin* 11 non is at present on the Hobart slation as a training ship. COASTAL companies AGILEEM ENT. SYDNEY. January 8. Tile coastal shipping companies have agreed to use the Union's rooms as their picking-up place, and their vessels are non working. Then* i- no ••bang*' in the inter-Mato nosit i'*n. A BOYCOTT OK SHIPS. MELBOURNE, January s. It is stated that if Hie shipowners in Sydney apply to the X.S.W. State Bureau for men. tin* Waterside Markers’ Kederntioii will instruct their members in other ports to regard the ships so loaded as " black.” X.S.W. STATE BUREAU. SYDNEY, January 8. (‘oiistermition is caused in local shipping oirrk'x over the establishment of the new State Waterside Labour Bureau : ns if the owners apply there for men they will he committing a breach of the agreement reached at the recent conference; while, if they ignore the Bureau, the State Government, in view of Premier Fuller’s announcement that he will stand firmly behind the Preference Act is certain to take action which will force the owners to observe the State law. A special conference has been convened for to-morrow between the overseas shipping representatives and the jiiler-Stnle shipping owners and coastal owners, also the Government and Union representatives with a view to arriving at a settlement .