AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

TIM HER WORKERS. THE AUSTRALIAN AWARD. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, January 28. The timber dispute has reached a critical stage. It was officially learned to-day that the Sydney and Suburban Timber Merchants’ Association intend to enforce the new award for a ■■IH-hour week, instead of 4-1 hours, as is being done at Melbourne, Adelaide, and Hobart. RACING MOATS BURNT. MELBOURNE, Jan. 20. Yarra Rowing Club’s hoatshed with twenty-three racing boats, was burned to-night. The damage is estimated at,three thousand sterling. A man named Swallow attempting to salvage the boats was severely burned and is dying. POTATO PRICES. (Received this day at 8.30. a.rn.) SYDNEY, January 20. Potatoes have receded €4 a ton. It is expected that within three weeks prices will he close to normal. SUGAR PRODUCTION. SYDNEY, January 20. There is a serious depression in the sugar industry iir Queensland and New South Wales, due largely to over-pro-duction. A complaint is made by New South Wales growers that when Queensland ousted black labour it was never intended that the Southern Europeans should he allowed to engage in unrestricted reproduction at cheaper rates than white growers in a neighbouring state. It is likely New South Wales growers will have to withdraw from the sugar pool and do the best they can for themselves. A HOT NIGHT. SYDNEY, Jan. 2D. 'file humidity at nine o’clock last night was 91 degrees, the temperature being 93. A BISHOP’S WARNING. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. Speaking at All Saints Cathedral at Bathurst, Bishop Grotty said that if the privileged classes failed to load in things cultural and spiritual, then it was most certain that forces in the unive'rse would gather swiftly for their overthrow. Those, at the bottom of the social ladder would rise and overturn too whole social order. This happened in Russia. This civilisation of ours cannot long continue to live with nothing better to hold it together than cynical disbeliefs, lanquid self-indulgence and half disguised paganism,, which is all we got from too many privileged classes to-day. DEATH ENSUES. MELBOURNE, Jan. 29. James Whittaker, aged 37, one of three men wounded when the police fired on a mob of rioters during the waterfront disturbance three months ago, died in the hospital.