AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 161, 12 March 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT, Press Association—Copyright. (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The first test in smelting at the Broken Hill Proprietory Company’s iron and ste'el works at Newcastle has been made. When in full swing the works will employ several thousand hands. The Federal Government, with a view to obviate idling many men, are being engaged on railway works, and as a preventative to unemployment, the Government has ordered 12,500 tons of steelrails from England. RABBIT INDUSTRY. ENCOURAGEMENT ASKED FOR. (Reed. 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Workers’ Association deputationised Mr Black with regard to the low prices paid in the rabbit industry. They suggested that the Government should control the establishment of freezing works, and poisoning should be abolished and made ille/gal to destroy a useful food. Mr Black stated that the objection to State meat freezing was applicable to rabbits, besides drought conditions wculd interfere with supplies.

THE AUSTRALIAN LOAF. NOT TO EXCEED NJINEPENCE. CABINET AND MILLERS AGREE. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Conference of flour mill owmers with a Cabinet sub-committee, arrived at an agreement whereby imported •wheat is to be sold at 7s 8d a bushel, provided flour is sold at £l6 10s ,a ten, which will prevent bread exceeding ninepence per four-pound loaf. It cost the Ministry 8 S 2d to land the American wheat,therefore the arrangement Involves a loss of sixpence a bushel. THE AFTERNOON SHIFT. WORK RESUMES ON MONDAY. (Reed. 9.1-5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Da}'. Delegates to the Board of Colliery Employees’ Association unanimously decided to recommend the acceptance of' the proprietors’ proposals in connction with the afternoon shift. It is anticipated the lodge will accept, and that work will be resumed on Monday, THREE LUGGERS LOST. ALL CREWS MISSING. (Reed. 10.30 a.m.) ADELAIDE' Thijs. Day, Three luggers and their ci'ews, totalling fifteen, are missing. In a cyclone, cabled on the eighth, it Is believed the luggers were wrecked. OBITUARY. ROLF BOLDJ3RWOOD. (Reed. 10.30 a.m.) This Day. Mr Thomas Browne, the novelist, known in the literary world as Rolf Bolderwood.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, PRICES CURRENT. (Reed. 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Prices current are: Wheat 8/; flour £lB 15/; bran, £9; pollard, £ll 5/; barley (English) 5/10 to 6/2, Cape 5/; oats (Algerian), 5/, White’s 4/10; maize 5/4 to 5/8; potatoes, £4 15/ to £5 5/; onions £5 1/ to £6. LABOUR TROUBLES. A DISCREDITED UNION. (Reed. 12.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Industrial Court granted an application on behalf of a number of theatre proprietors cancelling the registration of the Musicians’ Union of Australia. Among the grounds of the application it was stated that the association had instigated the members to strike, and passed a resolution against accepting the rates fixed by the Wages Board, and consistently broken all its industrial agreements. NORTH AUSTRALIAN SCANDAL. ALLEGED (ILLEGAL CONVICTION. (Reed. 10.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day Judge Murray recently sentenced a certain Mr Bernasconi to a year’s Imprisonment a,t Port Moresby for hanging a native boy to a rafter in his store a s punishment. Bernasconi demanded to be heard before a jury. Judge Murray stated that the case, in bis opinion, was one for the High Court. Sir Witn, Irvine supported the appeal, contending that under Federal law, Bernasconi was entitled to a jury. Therefore, he was illegally convicted.