AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1925, Page 3

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| [Australia it X.Z. Cable Association.] POSSriILE COAL STRIKE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY'. Sept. 2. Richmond Main and Pelaw Main collieries have decided to strike on Thlirsilav as a protest against the sitting i,i the Deportation Board. It is rumoured that all the mines in the northern field will also strike, but there is no official confirmation of this. Tin- Miners’ Federation stated the , rleeison of pelaw and Richmond miners to strike was reached without official sanction. It was these two mines that were idle so long as a result of a dispute over the use of air turbine machines and they only resumed work recently. Lazzarini in reply to a deputation '■ from the police asoeiation, asking : for preference to unionists, said it! Bill amending the Arbitration Act (will shortly lie introduced into Parliament. and preference to all Unionists will lie incorporated in it. CHANGES TAKING PLACE. FEDERAL TARIFF. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 2. In the House of Representatives Mr I’rat ten in moving a resolution which will bring various tariff changes into operation, said the Government had found that generally alter .scrutiny the recommendations of the Tariff Board ran he accepted, Imt it It ad not been able to endorse all the recommendations made therein, without injuring industry. Where It was possible reductions had been made, consistent with the necessity for raising sufficient revenue to enable the work of the country to he carried on. These will reduce the tost of living and result in giving relief from the payment of duty on articles of everyday use, of more than C750.0Q0 .sterling annually. Wherever it was demonstrated it was necessarv further to protect, local industries, action had been taken and the Government, had not hesitated to make drastic changes in order to put- some available basic industries in no uneerlaiit position. The value of the importation of goods last financial year affected hv proposed tariff increases amounted to over thirty millions sterling, and importation of goods affected by reductions over ten millions. As a result of the tariff it is estimated that within Iwo wars from twenty-live to thirty thousand additional employees would he required in industrial developments which are expected to take place. Al- 1 though the new duties may in some I eases temporarily increase the price of commodities affected, the public will 1 ~~ 1 lie called upon to pay £750.000 atiualiv less in another direction in connection with their consumption of goods necessarily imported. The mini- 1 her of United Kingdom free items and 1 sub-items in the present tariff is 275 and in the proposed tariff if is incroasoi, to 311. Additional preference to 1 British goods will increase the value of British preference hv over half a 1 million sterling. Mr Bratton added * that Government regretted that a late application by the iron and steel industry had not enabled Government. 1 to consider this great basic industry 1 it connection with the proposals now 1 made. The tariff provides for an ill- 1 '■tease in duty on woollen yarns from ' United Kingdom from ten t.o twenty t er cent.

CHARGE OF MURDER. HOBART. September 3. Alfred Joint Doibsoit. hits boon arresled and charged with the murder of hi, wifi*, who died recently. It i, alleged that Deleon poisoned her. tie was remanded till Monday. \ SYRIAN COUNCILLOR. SYDNEY Sept. 3. At the recent Council elections. a Syrian storekeeper. George Fawn::, Wit, elected for one oi the ridings ol Mallra Council. At. the first meeting of the Council, three other Councillors including the President, resigned as a protest against Fawn/, taking his seat, 'hie Councillor in refusing to welcome Fiiwaz. said lie saw around the walls if Lite Chamber the portraits of past Presidents who were always in favour of a White Australia. Fawaz in explaining his position spoke in broken English. ELECTRICIANS STRUCK. •MELBOURNE. Sept. 3. A strike has occurred at the power house and works of Victoria f'.leclri- - itv Commission, over one hundred men being involved. The output was temporarily seriously affected. Application was made in the Arbitration Court for an order requiring the men to resume work, but- was adjourned until Tuesday. During the •oaring it- was stated there was a Linger of tlw whole of Med ■lrctricity light ami power supply hieing cut off.