AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia <fc N.Z. Cable Association.] OBITUAR Y. ADELAIDE, Jan. 9. Obituary—Alfred William .Styles, ageti fifty-two. lie was Cliicf-Socrc-tary in the Vaughan Cabinet and one of the leaders of early closing and weekly half holiday movements.

SHIPPING DISPUTES. MELBOURNE. Jan. 11. O’Neiil. Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Seamen’s Union, inferring to tlie Commonwealth Steamship Owners’ Association letter, caMcd on Saturday, .said it constituted a direct challenge to tlie entire Union movement in Australia. In most cases I'spates bad arisen owing to tL•• that tlie officers and engineers had the right to interpret the awards of the Court. A majority of the disputes might have been averted if representatives of tlie shipowners and seamen’s union alone had the right of interpreting tlie awards.

GEN URAL ALLENBY. ADELAIDE, Jan. 10. General Allenby was given a big

public civic reception. Referring to the splendid work of the Australian mounted troops in Palestine. be declared that cavalry would he used more in future warfare than ever before. Aeroplanes and fast tanks delivering shock attacks, would amplify the

sphere of action for mounted troops, and tanks would enable supplies and munitions to be moved forward at n great pace, providing a moving base for cavalry.

THE 41-HOUR WEEK. SYDNEY, January 11. Tt is officially reported that the boilermakers, shipwrights. painters, dockers and cranemen at Cockatoo dockyards, all of whom are working under Federal awards providing for 48 hours a week, absented themselves from work on Saturday morning. A dock oflieial said the men worked 8] hours daily, except on Saturday which meant that they only worked *l3] hours a week. Others worked forty-four hours and demanded pay for forty-eight hours. The Shipping Board, however, paid the men only for the time worked. A BIG FIRE. SYDNEY. January 10. A disastrous fire at Quilpie Terminus on the north western railway wiped out practically the whole town. The damage is estimated at £16.000 RE-FLOATED. MELBOURNE. January 11. The barge. Favell. (cabled on Friday night 1 has been re-floated.