COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Sydney, October 3. A Mudgee lady anticipated the maternity bonus, and with a baby in her arms applied to the Magistrate for j £5. She showed annoyance when in-, I formed that the Bill was 'not yet law. Melbourne, October 3. | Bryant and May’s match factory has been closed. Four hundred hands arc idle. The reason given is that it is impossible to compete with the imported article, produced under low European wages. The company has accumulated a large stock which it is unable to unload. Unless extra protection is granted, the industry will bo strangled. Melbourne, October 3. In the Assembly the select committee appointed to enquire i nth a private Bill altering the memorandum of association of the Colonial Mutual Life Society, reported that it had taken evidence and examined the Bill, and agreed to it without amendment. Further consideration of the Bill was adjourned until Tuesday.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 4 October 1912, Page 8
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157COMMONWEALTH CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 35, 4 October 1912, Page 8
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