AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1925, Page 3

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AiT MORGAN A! 1N IMIS’ .1) MM AND. [SH ISLAND. .June 23. The employees at the Mount Morgan mine have served demands on the management for a -11-hour week, and all ierreu.se in wages ol ljd hourly. Ihe management will confer with the men in an eliort to reach an agieement, hut they state they will probably have to close the mine as the result of a long series of labour disputes and ol the state of the market. SYDNEY M 1.00D.5. MANDSi.I DKS AND FLOODS. SYDNEY, .June 26. In the Hawke-shury District much damage was caused by land-slides as the waters rapidly receded. Creeks at Duck and Aliltagong are running hankers. Traffic is interrupted. A man, who was washed oil' a hoi.se while crossing the Kangaroo river, was drowned. The position at Forbes is easier. The water is now concentrating into an enormous volume on its way through the'.l cmalong district, whore the hilly country prevents its spread. The land will he deeply submeigen. -ft is expected the Hood will reach t'ondobolin early next week. ft is still raining.

BUILDING COLLAPSE ENQURV MELBOURNE. June 25. \t the inquiry into the collapse of the British Tobacco Building. Robert lioan, of U\sts in chaise < t the Victorian Railways I-aberatory. said tests taken from the building after the collapse showed the ratio varied from 10.5 to 15.7 ot sand and stone to one of cement where the specifications provided for one ot cement to two of sand and four ot stone. _ (ienrgc Albert Royal, clerk ot Works at the job. said that a beam thirtyfour feet in length and 71 inches thick provided for in the Stewart Street walls were not put in the second, third and fourth floors.