AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)

iTGHTTNG PI EG 11.I 1 . WO I! K. SYDNEY. July 13. J'bo Engineers’ Union officials state that if the lnemhers decide to strike as a-protest against the introduction of piecework, which innovation operates as from to-morrow, they have plenty ol funds at their disposal, as there are world-wide - consolidated fluids belonging to the Engineers, totalling between throe and four million sterling, which could he utilised in a protracted struggle in New South Wales, or in any other State. MELBOURNE. July 13. Th conference of the Australian Railways Union has decided to ask the Trades Hall Council to call a special conference of all the Union likely to 1 )0 a fleeted by the introduction of piece work.

QUEENSLAND SUGAR STRIKE. BRISBANE. July 13. The first act of incendiarism in connection with the South Johnstone sugar cane strike occurred when a cane farm owned hy a Jugo-Slav farmer was set on fire. The outbreak was only extinguished after serious damage had been clone. So far there have been over fifty assaults oil farmers and loyal workers.

TRIPLE TRAGEDY. SYDNEY. July 13. Three ho vs named Wiliam Wembley, aged eleven, his brother. Ernest Wembley. aged ten. and Gus Hollebanc. aged seven, to-day stayed away from school. Thev secured an old raft, on which they sailed to a disused brick pit at Newtown. The raft, however, capsized, and the three hoys were drowned.

WOOL FOB RUSSIA. SYDNEY. July 13. M. Ratiagor-ky. the Russian trade representative, whose arrival was cabled on July 11th. stales that lie has ( ~,ine to Australia to buy and ship wool direct to Russia. He will attend all the wool sales. Instead of, as previously operating through the English markets, his Company has purchased raw material for all the woollen mills in itussia. 90 iter cent of which are owned hy it. A representative of the Company has been buying here in Australia for the past four months. He has already bought 17,800 bales. M. Palingorsky pointed out that the textile industry in Russia is now so large that it would always he a factor in the wool trade. Russia, lie said, now obtained 70 per cent- of her requirements from Australia. The fne, that his Company had been acting through English firms was a proof that his operations were in no way connected with the recent British bleak with Russia. His Company is also continuing to operate in London and •it Bradford. His visit here is in nowise connected with politics, heu i-s purely a commercial visit. His Company is in no way allied with the Areas Company. He expects largely to increase the Russian wrol operations in Australia.