AUSTRALIAN NEWS
THE LEVIES ON "WORKERS
(Australian Press Association)
MELBOURNE, March G
The Mining Committee, ol the trade Union Conference, just concluded, has fixed (lie levies payable by all workers to assist ilie coal miners. These range from two shillings weekly in the ease ol adults working receiving .to per week, to 4s weekly in the case ol those earning L 7. The ■ congress concluded by singing “The Red Flag.’ ' NEWCASTLE, -March 6. At the request' of the toal owners, in consequence of the death ol 40, i Brown, the conference with the miners’ representatives to try to arrange bn peace has been postponed until Monday. S YI) NEY 'HARBOUR B RI DG E. SYDNEY, March G. The harbour bridge work, which is one of great magnitude,- has been in progress since l!)2G. ! here is an enoimotts steel arch now stretching hall way across the harbour, rising to n dizzy height, The number of men killed since the inception is live, tin 1 latest being to-day. He fell lob loot into the harbour. His body was recovered within two hours by a diver in sixtv feet of water.
N.S.W. CRIME INCREASE. SYDNEY, - March 1
The annual report on crime in New South Wales states there was a substantial increase •in serious crime last year, the total number of cases being IO.bSM, which- was 1135 above-the- previous year. The police-force was increased by six hundred. The n mil her of motor vehicles registered was 2-17,538.
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