Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 2

Australia

OUR COMMISSIONERS IN ECVFT.

[Unitid Pbmi AuoaiAtioN.]

(Received 8.35 a.m.) • Sydney, Dei-ember 2S

Advices have bera recawJ that Sir George Reid (Commonwealth Commissioner) and the Poll. Thomas Mackenzie (Commissioner for New Zealand) arrived in Egypt. ~ *

"NO CERMANS NEED APPLY."

(Received 8.35 a.m.) Sydney, December 28

The employees of the Electrotytio and Refining Company, Port Keinhia, notified they will go oil strike if the services of three Germans be retained.

GENERAL.

Melbourne, Decsmber 25

Mr Justice Powers, .hi the Arbitration Court, refused tne Feltham employers' application 10 grant a reduction in wages owing to depression in trade, caused by the war and drought. He expressed the opinion that the application was made to enaole the employers to continue "o fmp'lov men below a living wage for an indefinite period. He indicated that tie applicants had shown a disposition to shirk their share of the burden of the present crisis,, and hoped tne employers would not require that all patriotism should be shown by the men.

The King and Queen sent Christmas greetings to the Australian navy.