AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
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NEW LABOUR PARTY. BRISBANE, Sept. 22. Tlie Trades and Labour Council has announced that it has abandoned its idea of forming a new Industrial Labour Party, and state that, instead, it has decided to clean up the existing Labour party. UNEMPLOYED. BRISBANE, Sept. 23. Tlie annual report of Unemployed Workers’ Insurance Commission tabled in tlie Assembly, shows there were •l".!ls() applicants for sustenance during the year ended 31st March last. Tlie sum dispense dwas £311.833. Receipts lor the year totalled £’263,523 anil disbursements £360.958. Tlie rate of contribution bad since been increased to fourponee. QUEENSLAND STATISTICS. BRISBANE. Sept. 23. A. C. Elpliinstone said in the last three years, Queensland’s population had increased by 18,000, whereas the number of factories luid decreased by 15; land selected bad decreased by 918,000 acres; mineral' production shrank by £628.000. He declared Queensland was kept alive only by loan money.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3
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151AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1927, Page 3
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