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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1927, Page 3

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DAMAGES AGAINST GAR OWNER. SYDNEY, Juno LU. Gertrude Edith Woodman, a widow, ot New Zealand, was awarded £2-10 and damages in ail action in which she claimed £200!) damages from I). P. Ogilvy, of Alosaian, Sydney, for injuries alleged to have been caused her when she was knocked down in the city by a motor ear owned by defendant in July last.

THE SYDNEY VENDETTA. SYDNEY, Jmu 1 27. There have heen police detailed lot sjpeeial investigations in ci/n)ieclioii with the razor-slashino outbreak. Ila police state that since the vendetta started over zo peoi>le have been treated in the hospitals as the result oi razor slashes in their laces. The police are determined to suppress this outbreak of lawlessness, and every effort is being made to prevent any recurrence of Thursday mold's crime. ■#S|| BASIC WAGE JUDGMENT. y SYDNEY, June 2*. The New South Wales Industrial Commissioner, Air Piddiugton, K.C., has issued his basic wage judgment. It fixes the living wage, on the standard of a man and wife at £1 .os per week. This is an increase of one shilling per ■week upon the current rate. The finding does not apply to the rural industries, which will be dealt with later.

In delivering bis basic wage ruling Air l’iddiiigton K. 0., also announced that the basic rate for women has been increased by from 8s Gd to 2s Gd per week.

The employees’ representative on the Basic AVago Commission lias dissented from the judgment. He proposed a basic wage of £1 17s Gd per week. The employers’ representative has also dissented from Afr Piddingtoii’s judgment. He said that, with the reduction of the famiiy unit which was previously taken into consideration in the granting of the basic wage for man, wife, and two children, there should be a reduction also in the basic wage.

Air Piddington also announced that tho rural basic wage would be declared later, and that, under the new finding, no rise in prices would be justified.

Afr Lang’s Child Endowment Scheme of 5s weekly per child will now automatically operate.

BASIC WAGE. • SYDNEY, June 28 Both employers organisations a

labour .unions express keen disappiintment with the new basic wage, though from opposing viewpoints. Tho employers express the opinion that the cost of living must materially increase in the immediate future, when together with the Child Endowment Act, tho increased rate comes into operation. All employees arcagreed that extra costs involved will bo passed on to the public.

HON. NOS WORTHY. SYDNEY, June 28

Hon. iXosworthy interviewed said he preferred to say nothing regarding Samoa until Tie returned to New Zealand, and had consulted with Jiis colleagues.

ZIONIST MISSION. SYDNEY, June 28

Doctor Alexander Goldstein who is touring the world in the interests of Zionist movements sails for New Zealand on Friday after a successful mission in Australia.

SYDNEY'S AVAR MEMORIAL. SYDNEY, June 16.

New South AVales is paying a tardy act of justice to the men who enlisted froiff the mother State during the war. 'lt is at last erecting a State memorial to them, and in the most fitting ot settings, in the opinion of most people in tlie community, even if architects may not wholly agree with them on that point. jMartiu-place, whose history is largely one of humanitarian effort in a hundred and one causes, notably the movements during the war for the fighting forces, is to lie tlie scene of the memorial. It is in the very heart of tlie city. The memorial! will occupy almost the precise spot where the platform stood from which most of tho great recruiting appeals were delivered.

The memorial, designed by Sir Bertram Mackennnl, will contrast strongly with the general design or war memorials, which, in nearly every instance, are based on the cenotaph or column idea. It will consist of three large f granite layers surmounted by a missive ai'tar stone weighing twenty tons, at each end of which will he bronze figures, one representing a soldier and the other a sailor, standing at ease, and attired in battle order. In the centre of the altar stone will be a bronze wreath. On one side of the stone will I>e the words, “ Lest we forget,’ and on the other side, “ lo our glorious dead.” In one ol Sydney's busiest and most crowded streets immersed in the grey routine of daily life, this national memorial should not be without inspirational effect.