AUSTRALIAN MATTERS
BUSINESS CIRCLES SURPRISED
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<Received this day at 19 a.m.l LONDON. "April 30.
The news, cabled from Australia, that the pay of the waterside workers has been increased three half-pence an ho/., and the New S nth Wales Government has imposed a tax of two per cent on the wages sheetings for child endowment, has caused a surprise in business circles. As , these impositions will entail large increases in the costs of stevedoring to steamship companies, disappointment is expressed that the visit of the shipping delegation was Apparently futile as fas securing reductions in costs In Australia were concerned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 5
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106AUSTRALIAN MATTERS Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 5
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