AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Australia <fc N.Z. Cable Association.] X.S.W. STATISTICS. SYDNEY. Jan. 25. The State Statistician reports the .number of factories in New South Wales last year increased hv 275 to 173,563. There were increases of £2,477.607 and £2,396,845 respectively in the value of land and buildings, plant and machinery the aggregate totals being £43,/28,/4/ and £45,950,i4u. Salaries and wages paid during the year aggregated £33.458,200, an increase of 1,937,351 compared with 1926. The value of the output is estimated at £169,413,741. mi increase of £9,804,868.

ADULT FRANCHISE. SYDNEY, Jan. 25. Cabinet has decided to reintroduce a Bill in the present session to provide for adult municipal franchise. This will be the third attempt to pass the Bill.

NIGHT COURSING. SYDNEY. Jan. 25

A Company has been formed for the purpose of introducing night coursing with artificial hares. The meeting, which commences next month, will he held all the year round. The rules will he similar to those of the National Conrsing A ssooi a t ioi 1 . LABOR ATTITUDE. SYDNEY. Jan. 25. The annual congress of Australian Workers’ Union discussed the possibility of an attempt being made to recruit a contingent of volunteers for service in China, and decided should the attempt he made that the Federal Council of Workers’ Union would arrange' a no-intervention campaign throughout the Commonwealth. BANK MERGER. MELBOURNE. Jan. 25. A proposal for amalgamation of the Bank of Victoria [Ad. and Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, was approved by meetings of ordinary and preference shareholders. WHEAT ROOr., SYDNEY, Jan. 25. A meeting of the executive of the

farmers settlers association strongly opposed any attempt by the Government to form a compulsory wheiat pool, and suggested that a Pool Enabling Act be passed as a measure preliminary to any progressing marketing system. BUILDING TRADE HOURS. BRISBANE. Jan. 25. A further number of building trade employees were absent from work on Saturday in pursuance of the decision to work only 40 hours per week, and were dismissed when they went to commence- work on Monday. A meeting of master builders decided to apply to the Arbitration Court for cancellations of the building trade award and the deregistration of striking unions. A meeting of strikers resolved that unless all men working on conditions other than those adopted by the building trades group leave work within 24 hours, members of the building trades group will refuse to work with them.

WOOL SALES. MELBOURNE, .Inn. 25. At the wool sales competition was Killing and the demand well distributed. values ruling on a par with last week’s closing rates.