AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1928, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

FREE LABOUR ON WHARVES. . (Australian Press Association.) NEWCASTLE, Sept. 20. Free labour is to commence work on tho local wharves to-day. Strikers and dodgers urging men not to volunteer are being posted all over the city by Unionists. DECISION NOT TO WORK. BRISBANE, Sept. 20. Wntersiuers at a mass meeting reaffirmed their decision mot to work tuider. the Beeby award. MELBOURNE, Sept. 20. A special meeting of the Australian Council of Trades Unions is being held to consider the latest developments of the waterside strike. , FREMANTLE, Sept. 20. The mail liner Orsova is approaching Fremantle at a greatly reduced speed in the hope that the waterside hold-up will be avoided. The liner Cathay last week was compelled to resume her voyage without • unloading Fremantle cargo. STEAMER DAMAGED ON ROCKS. FREMANTLE, Sept. 20. The Swedish steamer Hygnern, of 4,000 tons, was severely damaged on the rocks at Gage roads, Fremantle Harbour. There is ten feet of water in some of the holds. The rudder has been-, carried away and the propellor bent. 1

no wheat pool in n.s. WALES. SYDNEY, Sept. 19. The New South Wales fanners, in a plebiscite, have decided against a Wheat Pool or a Marketing Board, which was projected under the marketing clause of the Primary Products Act. COMMERCIAL BANK. SYDNEY, Sept. 19. The Commercial Bank during the half year up to June 30th last, made a. profit of £965,525. The Chairman Sir Robert Gibson, regards the Bank’s prospects as bright, owing to there being indications of a favourable season facing the primary producers.