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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) AUSTRALIA DEFEATS ENGLAND. AIELBOURXE, Jan. 7. ' The Australians won both rubbers of tho singles in the tost match against England, Windsor heating Colonel Dupre 26—8, 26 —G, and AleCleary heating Sir Francis Wemyss 26—0,
O” y _ AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING DISPUTE, SYDNEY, Jan. 9. Jacob Johnson, general secretary ot the Australian Seamen’s Union in reply to the shipowners statement regarding the seamen’s dispute says the argument of the Union is that seamen should have been allowed time off, without any deduction of pay. to attend the meeting, because according to legislature, Tuesday was a holiday. If the owners had succeeded in forcing the seamen to attend a meeting on the holiday they would have been breaking the agreement which provides that the meeting is to take place in the owners time. Furthermore the owners should not have- logged tho men in the way they did. hut should -have referred the dispute to the Conciliation Committee. In logging the men, the Owners were merely carrying out tho instructions of their assoeation. It is significant that the companies which are not members of the association, including the Commonwealth line did not log their men.
AIELBOURXE, Jan. 9 Arrived—Gisla from Dunedin.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 3
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