AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ARBITRATION COURT. MELBOURNE, August 31. Judge Webb, Deputy President of the Arbitration Court, declared that the basic wage would cost the workers millions sterling. He declared that anomalies which were created hv the use of the formula adopted by the Arbitration Court for ascertaining the basic wage were responsible for this wastage. Inter alia, he instanced the Perth Unionists, who, Le said, were entitled to a basic wage of £4 4s Gd weekly, instead of the existing rate of £'3 13s Gd. which was arrived at by the Court’s formula.
X.S.W. PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY. Aug. 31. The State Parliament reassembles qn the 22nd. September. MELBOURNE, Sept. 1. The Minister of Defence (Sir Neville Hawse) who is accompanying Mr Bruce to the Imperial Conference left by the Moultpn. Mr Bruce joins the steamer at Adelaide on Thursdav.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1926, Page 2
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