AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(fly Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feh. 17. The week’s wool sales closed with a good demand in all sections at full rates for comebacks of all grades. Crossbreds were in keener request. FLOOD FATALITY. ADELAIDE, Feh. 17. Floods caused several wash-aways in Adelaide-Broken Hill railway. An engine overturned into water at one ol the breaks and a fireman, Middleton, was pinned beneath and drowned. Ihe rest of the crew escaped. SITFARFRS’ WAGES. SYDNEY. Feh. 17. Under the automat i- adjustments provided by the Federal p .toral award founded on the cost of living, the Board of Reference has reduced the rates for shearers where they are found Is (id. and where they are not found. 2s 3d weekly. Reductions for other shearing employees range from 7d to Is (id weekly. COAIM ERCIAL. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m A .MELBOURNE, Feb. 17. ■Wheat 5s 2.j-d, 5s 3d; flour £l2 2s (Id, £l2 7s (Id; braii-£!> 15s; pollard 07 10s, oats £4 -Is, barley English) sellers 5s sd, Cape Is fid; potatoes Of, £5; onions £ll. SPRINT RACE. NEWCASTLE, Feh. 17. The hundred yards professional world’s sprint championship resulted.— Miles 1, Parker 2. Banner 3. Inches separated the men. Time 9; seconds. LABOUR PARTY’S DECISION. SYDNF.Y, Feh. 17. The Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party ruled that no Communists or others expounding Communistic doctrines he admitted to the party.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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239AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1928, Page 3
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