AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1925, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 24. At the wool sales there was good competition and juices were five jier cent lower as! compared with previous sales, especially for faulty merino fleece wools and skirtings. Crossbreds were unchanged. Greasy merino sold to thirty-three pence. COLLIE DISPUTE SETTLED. PERTH, Nov. 24. A meeting of the Collie strikers have agreed to the terms of a settlement and the men resumed work. EMPLOYERS PROTEST. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 24. The President of the Metal Trades Employers Association, addressing a meeting of tho Association said the present position in the engineering and iron trades generally was very serious. For some years past the industry had been suffering from lack of orders, due mainly to importations from abroad. Some sections had expected to benefit from the recent tariff amendments. but almost before any result from the new tariff could be felt, the State Government introduced the jorty-four hours week which placed the industry in a critical position. The speaker concluded : - "The Government has no mandate to destroy private enterprise* nor to socialize industry, hut there can he no oilier interpretation of the legislation the Lang Government is passing.”