AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Aslociation.] NEW ZEALANDER’S SUCCESS. SYDNEY, Jan. 12. At the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, annual examinations, I). J. Sidey, of North Canterbury, gained first •class honours in the dairying diploma class. He won the gold medal for the Dux of the same class; also a special prize for bacteriology.

SHIP OWNERS’ UJ/ITMATCJM. MELBOURNE, .Tan. 12. It is regarded as certain that the conditions imposed by the ultimatum of.the steamship owners regarding jobcontrol will not he acceptable to the .seamen. In the event of their being put into operation a hold-up of interstate shipping, is inevitable, hut, as the ultimatum will have to he considered by the State and Federal executives, It will he some time before a definite reply can he made. SHEARERS’ DEMANDS. SYDNEY, Jan. 12. Tinder the new shearing log submitted! by (the Australian Workers’ Union to the Federal Arbitration Court to replace the award which has expired, last year’s ’rate of three pounds sterling per hundred for (lock sheep, without keep, is claimed, hot if A'-- a shearer earns less than £9 10s with keep, the employer must make up the deficiency. If keep is found a ininitmum of £8 is claimed, while for

shed-hands and general uscfuls £6 to £7 with keep is demanded ; for conic/:. IDs weekly with keep, for every man for or a minimum of £8 weekly.. The claims, which cover all States, except Queensland, will he heard on loth. March. Meantime the oh! rates continue.