AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

COAL STRIKE. SYDNEY. Fehruarv 14

At a mass meeting of the coal miners at AAallsend and at Cessnock, on the Northern fields, the proposals of the Central Council of the -Miners’ Federation were rejected. The officials were severedv criticised for calling the men out before any aggregate meetings had been held.

Several other meetings on the northern fields agreed with the Council’s proposals. The Cessnock meeting was addresesd by an official of the Xew Zealand .Miners' Federation, who said that the Australian miners would he assured of support from the Xew Zealand miners, should they decide to take up the fight.

.MELBOURNE. Fehruarv II

At a mass meeting the men employed at the AA'onthaggi State Coal Aline, today decided to resume work to-mor-row. COAL AIIXERS’ DECISION. (Received this day at S a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 15. Aggregate meetings at most of the larger mining districts of Xew South Woles rejected the Council’s proposals for a minimum weekly wage of £5 10s. a forty-four week and inquiry into the economic aspect of tho industry. Several smaller centres agreed to the proposals. X.S.AY. LABOUR. SYDNEY. Feb. 14. The Parliamentary Labour Caucus decided that the Red Element, composed of Communists and other extremists connected with that cult, should he excluded from the Labour Afovement. THE TOURIST SHTP. Jbece'vdd this dav at 5.30 a.m.) SUVA. Feb. 15. The Franconia, from New York, arrived yesterday and was escorted up the harbour by a fleet of native sailing canoes. The passengers were motored in n circular drive of thirty miles in the afternoon, and in the evening n ball held in the Grand Pacific Hotel was a big success. The vessel sailed for Auckland this morning. Arrived : Tofua from Apia.

LONDON, Feb. 12. Arrived—At Norfolk. Araiva. Sailed—From Montevideo. Gallic from Southampton for New Zealand Huahine: from Colon. Shenfmount.