AUSTRALIAN NEWS
COST OF LIVING
FALLING IN AUSTRALIA.
(Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, September 17, The Commonwealth Statistician reports that since July 1929 the cost of living in Australia has fallen eight per cent and is still falling. 20 PER CENT WAGE CUT. ! • M ipERTH, September 1(5. The shearers in Western Australia have decided unanimously to resist the reduction of their pay (from 40s to 31s 6d per hundred sheep. Police protection will be afforded to those pastoralists who desire to appeal for free labour HONOUR FOR MR BEAN. MELBOURNE, September 17. The University Connil has decided to confer a doctorship of letters on C. E, W. Bean, the official war historian. EMPIRE FREE TRADE. FREMANTLE, Sept. 17. Senator Elliott interviewed on the arrival of the Ormonde said: While in England he made a study of Lord Beaverhrook’s Empire Trade policy, and had found it did not include the abolition of Dominion tariff walls, but represented the principle reciprocal prefeience, which was what the Australian Prime Ministers had been seeking since tbe days of Sir Alfred Deakin. He said; “We must realise it is useless trying to establish economic lawp without regard to* the rest of the world. If we will not think with our heads we will be forced to think with our stomachs.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1930, Page 5
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