AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1927, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

iiy Tnr.KfutArrr muss assx., (.orviucitT. SYDNEY, .Tune 15. In the ( 'oniinomvealtb Arbitration Court, tile Chief Judge Dethridgc, referring to piecework, said lie was m favour of it. Conditions that obtained in the industry to-day, compared with other countries could only be preserved if payments by results were adopted. The judge said lie had a very strong objection to degrading the first class man in industry, lie believed in giving a first Mas.-; man wages. The Australian Vi in kers’ Union representative replied Art workers in Australia would not op;-.' piecework, so long as they were gu ran teed the continued cutting °l rates by employers would be stopped.

disabled ship. SYDNEY. June ||. The steamer Proteus, hound from Sydney to New Caledonia, was disabled and rendered helpless in a storm three hundred miles off the New South Wales coast. She has been picked lip by the steamer Cross Keys, which Is towing tier to Brisbane. The Proteus is not equipped with wireless, and was unable to report the accident until the ( mss Keys, which is wirelessly equipped. took her in tow.

BUTTER PRICK RAISED. SYDNEY, June 15. The wholesale price of butter has been increased by a penny per pound to 2(Hls 8d per ewt. SYDNEY FERRY ( OLLISIOX. SYDNEY. June 15.

Two ferry steamers collided in tbe harbour with terrific force, injuring six paseugers. One vessel, in a sinking condition, had to he towed to (he wharf after transferring her passengers to a ferry-boat which went to her assistance.

WIRELESS ENQUIRY. SYDNEY. .1 tun- 10. Giving evidence before the Wireless Commission. Mr Fisk (Managing Director of Amalgamated Wireless) said, i Imre were too many broadcasting stations in New South Wales. :iml they interfere with each other, lie did not advocate a curtailment, hut he favoured an allocation of wave lengths, relative power and proper placing cT stations. Difficulties in eonneclinn with wireless to-day arose through the miscellaneous growth of stations. Everybody wanting to do publicity 1 rnadeasting, wanted to own his own station. He would like to see an arrangement. whereby everybody with n legitimate desire to broadcast for public purposes eould do so through a broadcasting service being available to all on equal terms. There must be a limit somewhere, ami that should he on the number of stations, rather than on the people entitled to broadcast. He suggested that the ownership of stations le vested in the Federal Parliament.

AUSTRALIAN CHEESE CHAMPION SHIP. BR r.S'BA XE. June 10.

Ihe results of the annual eoinjietiI ions in butter and cheese under the auspices of the Factory Managers' Association, show the Australian cheese championship was won by Downs Cooperative Society with 95J pis.. Pitlsworth Co-operative No. 2 Factory 2. Beloved re Company (New Zealand) 3.

OBITUARY. MELBOURNE. June It;. Obituary-—M. K. McKenzie, former member of the Legislative Assembly and a Minister of Lands.