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[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association. 1 11-HOURS WEEK. SYDNEY, Jan. I!. Smith (Secretary of the Australian Clerical Association) states an application for a reduction of the weekly working hours to forty will he made to the Arbitration Court next week on behalf of those unions which en.joved a forty-four hour week before the act (ante into operation. COM MIT El) FOR, TRIAL.
MELBOURNE, Jan. 9. Dominion Condollo was committed for trial on a charge of murdering Constable Clare. MELBOURNE, dan. 1). Sailed: Gabriella for Wanganui. NEWCASTLE. January 0. Sailed: Tairoa and Karori for New Zealand. SHIPPING TROUBLES. NEWCASTLE. January !). As a result of certain members ol tie crew of the steamer Poolta which left Newcastle for New Zealand refusing duly, the vessel returned to porl some hours later. It is stated consul ■able trouble was experienced will the crew just prior to sailing and ai the vessel was moving away three u the crew leant hack to the wlmrl. MELBOURNE. Jan. 9.
In a letter to Air Raeburn, General Secretary of the Australian Seamen’s Union, the Common wealth Steamship Owners’ Association states the InterState Steamship Companies will, in the I’llture decline to employ any member of the Seamen’s Union guilty of having caused any vessel belonging to any of the companies to lie delayed, or of having attempted the exercise of job control. The (onil'anics will also reiuse io employ any man aho lails, without reo-nii. to join liis ship, or is aleeui at, sailing time without cause. Accompanying the letter is a memorandum giving lorly-scven cases in wp.it 1 1 job control lias been prat tise-I since the agreement win signed between tin* Union and the Association in August. SYDNEY MINT SYDNEY. Jan. 9. Air Lang announced lie has definitely decided to close the Syndey mini which has been a losing proposition for years. In future all coinage will he minted at Alelhourne and subsequently at Canberra, when the federal capital is established there. Air Lang has a scheme for building a row of Government buildings extending from Mitchell Library to the Registrar General's office, including the building ol an up to date Parliament House, and removal of the Sydney Hospital from the present site. The scheme will cyst in the vicinity of a million sterling.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1926, Page 4
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