AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1926, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, June 7. A campaign for a forty-four hour week has been launched by the building trades, which also claim £8 weekly for a forty-four hour week, and twelve days holiday yearly in addition to all public holidays. Two hours off, or payment for same when a man is discharged to enable him to sharpen his tools. A COMING WORLD FLY. MELBOURNE, June 7. Advice has been received frd\n Rome that Commander Depinedo, who last year flow from Italy to Australia, will leave Rome on Ist July on a world flight. The route chosen includes Africa, South America, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Malay Archipelago and home via Asia. The flight across the Pacific will he accomplished from Valparaiso to Easter Island, Manganeva, Tahiti, Pago Pago, Suva, Noumea, Auckland, where he will stay a short time, afterwards proceeding to .Wellington and Dunedin, thence to Hobart. The total distance will he about sixty thousand miles.

BROKEN HILL WORKS STOP. SYDNEY, June 7. Several mills at the Broken Mill Proprietary Steel Works have been closed owing to the coal strike, idling live hundred employees. The supplies for other parts of the works, where three thousand are employed, will last, only another fortnight.