AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

GENERAL STRIKE URGED. • (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, July 22. The Communist Party at Broken Hill are urging the workers to close every mine and to declare a general strike. BASIC IVAGE REDUCED. SYDNEY, July 22. The Federal basic, wage has been reduced in all State,s in sympathy with price and living costs. Queensland workers under Federal Awards lose 5s 6d, New South Wales Is, and other States 6d to Is 6d weekly. GIRL DANCER. DIES OF BURNS. PERTH, July 22. A girl dancer at the Perth theatre brushed again an electric radiator ,in a dressing room. Her flimsy dress

burst into flames and the girl was dreadfully burned. She died from the effects. AUSTRALIA’S DECISION. MELBOURNE, July 22. A recommendation by the Military Board that young Australian officer graduates should be sent to India for further training, and possibly for active service, has been rejected by the Federal Cabinet, which takes the view it would be impolitic to meddle in the affiairs of India, especially at the present juncture. UNEMPLOYEI) RESUME. (Received this dav at 1.0 p.mA SYDNEY, July 23. Unemployed who downed tools at the suburban relief works, agreed to resume after hearing the Minister of Labour’s reply ,to their representatives regarding conditions. It is understood, however, if the demands are hot met satisfactorily, all relief works may he declared black by the unemployed workers movement. FEDERAL ESTIMATES. CANBERRA, July 23. The Federal estimates of expenditure which total £65,610,000 or an increase of £1,94,000 over last year included £14,707,000 on business undertakings namely railways, and post office, an increase of over half a million. . Of this expenditure £869,000 will be. contributed from the general revenue. The post office revenue is expected to be £15,577,000, an increase of over a million and a half. £312,000 will be voted for Federal capital territory from which the revenue is expected to reach £228,000, FEDERAL FINANCE. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 23. Copies of the Federal estimates of receipts and expenditure for 1930-31 were circulated in the House of Representatives. The revenue is estimated at £65,585,770 sterling, of which fourteen millions is expected to be derived from new taxation. The administration proposed to increase Government costs by a million sterling. Overseas trips will cost fourteen thousand, political expenses £77,000; League of Nations £30,000; iron and steel bounties £300,000. The principal feature of the Federal Budget debate was an address by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Latham). He gave details of his proposal to reduce the estimates by four million sterling. These included the withdrawing of a million sterling for unemployment relief and limiting the maternity bonus to persons receiving not more than £6 per week. UNEMPLOYMENT STRIKE, SYDNEY; July 23. About seven hundred men engaged on unemployed relief work have gone on strike a.s a protest against the new rates and conditions for their employment. Communist agitators are responsible for the stoppage.