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(Australian Press Association) SHOOTING TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, Dee. 10. The victims of the shooting tragedy at Punchbowl are Wallace Ducie, aged 35, and Jessie Smithson, aged 20. Both had been missing since last Friday. Ducie was wanted by the police for wife desertion. N.S.W. BASIC WAGE. JUSTICE PIDDINGTON’S COMMENT. SYDNEY, Dec. 20. The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission, sitting at Sydney to-day, declared the living wage in New South Wales for man, wife and one child at £4 2s 6d per week, and for the adult female employee at £2 4s 6d.
Mr Justi cc Piddington, President of the Commission, dissented. In scathing remarks upon the condition under which the Commission was forced to act, hq likened the Commission to a computing machine. The old rate for the adult family, consisting of man, wife and two children was £4 ss, so that the new basic wage represents a drop of 2s fid, while it covers a man and wife and only one child. The Government intends to revise the child endowment plan, whereby the employees under State awards shall pay sixpence a week towards the fund, to which the Government will add a subsidv.
When the Legislative Assembly met to-day, Mr Lang (Leader of the Opposition) demanded that the Government should suspend the basic wage declaration. His motion for the suspension of the declaration was defeated hv 44 votes to 32.
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