AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.j SYDNEY, -May 10. Deputies, clerks and engineers are carrying out their duties of ■ stoking boilers, amt driving engines in some of the main collieries which otherwise would be in danger of flooding. This will also conserve, the. supply of electricity for the .town of Cessnock. Unless the strike is settled early, coastal and inter-State collieries will be laid up. throwing most of the members of the coal lumpers union out of work, also a number of seamen.
A JUDGE’S ACTION. MELBOURNE, May 10. The- President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Justice Powers, has issued a statement through the registrar respecting the forty-four hour] week decision. He admits he made a mistake in not submitting the applications to the Full Court to allow the union to he heard on the question at least. Whether the Court should not reopen the question of standard hours to the extent necessary to allow applications on ..some of them to be dealt with, notwithstanding the recent judgment of Quick and Webb. Therefore Justice Powers has instructed that the cases come before the Full Court on Thursday, - /,
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1926, Page 3
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187AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1926, Page 3
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