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' HUD!)ART PARKER LTD. •. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, March 7.A; Huddart Parker Ltd. accounts just issued, disclose profits fell from £143.00!) in 1927 to £124,457 in 1928, owing to the Cooks’ and Watersiders’ Strikes and stagnation of the coal industry, ip which the Company was interested, 'flic dividend lias been reduced from. 14 to 10 per cent'. The preference diyidnd is (j per cent. The dividends absorb £105,000. INFLUENZA PR EGA LTJONS. CANBERRA. March 7. The Federal Minster of Health, Sir. Neville Hawse, does not regard the influenza epidemic in England and Europe as alarming. The present outbreak is aggravated by the severe winter in Europe, hut there are none of the characteristics of the malignant pneumonic signs of the 1918-19 epidemic. The Minister added that adequate precautions have been taken to deal with the situation in Australia. A SESATTONAL HAPPENING. NEWCASTLE, March 7- ' Strikers tactics took a sensational turn, when twenty Unionists broke in on a brawl between two men. They carried one to the roadway and flung , him in front of a two horse lorry tra- 1 veiling at a fast pace. The man missed being trampled on by inches. He had previously broken the windows of } a Union building. • MELBOURNE, March 7. SHOOTING. The winner of the first stage of the King’s Prize was It. Warner (South Australia).
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