AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAHI.fi ASSOCIATION TOO MANY LAWS. SYDNEY, February 28. The ease in which a soldier wntersider proceeded against the stevedor- | ing Company for failing to give him *• I preference as a .soldier was dismissed ' | the Court stating it was of the opinion 'the Federal award over-rode the Stato Act regarding preference. This was a test (•a.se. as was previously cabled, and following on the Court’s decision 1 the soldier watersiders resolved to join the Waterside Workers .Federation. A PENALTY CLAUSE. .MELBOURNE. Eehruary 27. In the .Federal Arbitration Court, ‘ the shipowners applied for a. penalty ( lause to be inserted in the waterside workers’ award providing drastic penalties tor acts tending to a breach of 1 av-atd, and providing £SO penalty if the Federation or members to the number ol two or more in combination fail to offer themselves for work as a me in -a, eidon ing a demand, the penally i i he paid to the employers. The healing was adjourned till Monday week to enable the secretary of the \\ atersiders Federation to attend. BETTER WESTR A 1.l AN INSURANCE L.tiV. I ‘ F.lt'l 11. February 2d. "I lie compulsory insurance of all labour, including dome-tic help, is to be enforced under the new Workers’ Compensation Act. from Sunday next. I olicies will he issued covering all obligations under the new act with the exception of four classes of miners' disease. ' FLU YARNING. MF.1.80l RNK. February 27. The Federal ißircvtor General of Health has issued a warning stating that in about live weeks lienee tlioro will be an epidemic of influenza in Australia and asking the public to take all precautions. lie adds that the disease is now prevalent i:i England, and invariably in the past such an outbreak has been followed by an epidemic in Australia. STATE ENTER IT; IRKS. I!R IS BA NE. l-'e inn ai y *73. R,■view ing the ot orations of State enterprises, the .Minister fen-easted the writing down by Government, of the capitalisation in Stale stations and : State canning industries. State stations represented eiehlv-four ncr cent | of the total imlt'litoilmvjs to tin* Tre:isiiry, tlie remainin'' six oiitorj rNos