AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1930, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

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(Australian Press Association.) • i

SYDNEY, Aug. 15

Three armed men held up a chemist on Bondi to-night and obtained £l2. They escaped. There are no details.

RACING CHUB’S FINANCE,

BRISBANE, August 15;

Mr T. Jack member of the Brisbane Amateur Turf Club, has caused a sensation. by giving notice of his intention to move at the annual meeting that the Club be dissolved, owing to its being unable to meet its financial obligations. This club made an average profit of £30,000 a year for the seven years prior to last year, when the profits dropped to £13,000. FURTHER WAGE CUT. SH)KEY.;v;' August 15. Judge Beeby the wages of the contract' workers in the Southern and Western , Oolleries of New t South Wales, and; also in the oolleries of Tasmania an# at Wonthaggi, in Victoria, by twelve arid , a-hfilf per cent., while the day wage employees’ pay has been reduced by sixpence per day. . ; '■

ARMED THEFT.

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 16. Armed bandits are still active in the suburbs.

Three men entered a pharmacy conducted by Mr and Mrs Walsh at Randwick. They held up the woman at a gun point and took £l2 sterling from the till and escaped.

TO REDUCE WAGES

SYDNEY, August 16. New South Wales and Vitorian railway Commissioners have lodged applications before the Federal Arbi- it tration Court for variation of the existing Federal awards and reduction in wages.' .ft

Thirty thousand men in New South Wales are affected.

AIR BAVIN’S APPEAL.

ioYDNEY, August 10,

Premier Bavin ma ( de .appeal for Federal and -State r co-operation, for solving Australia’s financial problems.

It was imperative, he said, if. the present crisis' is to be met, that a definite binding agreement should be arrived at by the Government of the Common- K

wealth and 'States for the adoption of a common policy in the matter so vital to Australia, I: cannot refraih 7 fr6m expressing the hope that. Mr Scullin will not take his departure until definite and effective arrangements have been made for meeting the situation. There is no need for a panic and no reason to doubt that our difficulties cannot be met and overcame.. A. financial conference of Prime Ministers and Treasurers is being held at Mel- 1 | bourne on Monday.