AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia &■ N.Z. Cable Association.] TURKIC VKAP.S’ HARD. AI KLBOrRXK, July 1(5. Detective O’Sullivan was sentenced to three years’ hard labour. FORTY HOUR \YKICK WANTED. BRISBANE, July Hi. Air Justice Wel.b at the Arbitration Court refused the building tratio employees a working week of forty hours. The claim was based on the but that the statutory working -week was recently reduced h.v four hours, and the Union asked that it should be granted the same benefit as other workers. A KltO PLAN ICS AND POLITICS. SYDNKY. July Hi. When a motion to suspend the standing orders to allow the amendment of the Navigation Act he taken tin the Senate it was found that another vote was needed to secure the necessary absolute majority. Senator Guthrie, who was- entertaining the Ooyernor at n coursing meeting in Geelong, was summoned by urgent tolo<,rain and be secured an aeroplane and blew to Melbourne, being in time to participate in the division.

A r, AMOUR ACT. SYDNKY. July lib Air l.nng has issued a ukase to the (Railway Commissioners ordering the restoration ol the seniority ol the men who were disrated as the result ol the great 1017 railway and tramway strike. The Idealists who obtained promotion as the result of the disrating of the strikers and who will now l.e redressed in order to restore their pre-strike seniority, will continue to receive their present pay. The Government will reimburse the Commissioners, the extra cost involved running into a large ■ sum. N.Z. HOWUKRS. SYDNKY. July 10. The New Zealand bowlers deteated ißandwiek by 41 to 30.