AUSTRALIAN NEWS
FIRE AT SALE.
(Australian Press Association)
MELBOURNE, Nov. 17
In the men’.s department of the Leslie Proprietary’s big stores at Sale, a lire did damage ..estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000.
FATAL MOTOR CRASH. SYDNEY, Nov. 17
A motor ear crashed into an embankment at Earl wood last night, somersaulting four times. Kenneth Bowden, aged 18, was killed. Four other youths were injured. CHILD ENDOWMENT . (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 18. It is now considered certain that the State Cabinet will retain the Child Endowment scheme but will draft a formula to provide for a basic wage for man and wife without children,'"'at about £4 weekly. The endowment fund will not be made a direct charge on industry as at present, but the fund may be built up bv weekly contributions from employers and employees > and a subsidy from the Government.
MR SCULLIN’S VIEWS.
CANBERRA, November IS•;
Mr James Scullin '(Prime Minister? announces the Commonwealth Government will not sign the convention on the treatment of foreign nationals, until he has had an opportunity of examining all the provisions, ■£.s'&. .i. PREFERENCE FOR UNIONISTS/ ® r CANBERRA, November 18’... A deputation Of the Australian Workers’ Union officials will to-day ask the Government to declare a policy‘or straight-out preference "to Unionists throughout Australia, also that the Minister enforce the principle in its own departments.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1929, Page 5
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