AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3413, 18 February 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MELBOURNE MASTER BUTLDE‘RS.! REQUEST CANCELLATION OF ‘ AWARD. Received 11.5 '.a.m. FELBOURNE, This Day. The State Cglbinet is discussing an application by master builders asking for suspension of building trade‘ awards, owing to employees refusing‘ to work on-Saturdays. 1 Bush fires in Victoria. ranges caus-Q ed extensive damage. ADELAIDE, This Day. 'Ross won the 440 yards swimming championship, the only opponent troubling him being Beaurepaire, from whom he won by ten yards in 6.15 2-5. Received 11.5 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Storey has delivered the Labour policy; it includesiproposals for abo~ lition of State Governors and the Upper House; establishment of a home for child subsidy; regulation in prices, the latter to include imprisonment ‘of those guilty of profiteering; wheat production to be encouraged by guar¥ anteeing minimum price, which is to to be paid in full upon delivery; and establishment of a rural bank empowered to issue bonds again-‘st mortgages. Storey also intends to Nationalise monopolies, including coastal steamships and ferry services, and to [establish national industries in which lemployees will participate. Hydro ielectric and decentralisation schemes 'are also included.

THE ENGINEERS‘ STRIKE. l Received 11.5 a.m. J SYDNEY, This Day. ! Mr Hughes staes the Governmr.-.ntg will make no further offer to the marine engineers as the limit in e.on~ cession is reached to men who thus! defy the law. Efforts to- arrange a‘ settlement have so far failed The Council of Rifle Associations‘ of Australia have cabled an invitation to British mento visit the Common-‘ wealth this year. " ‘ THE PRICE OF SUGAR. BRISBANE, This Day. A conference of sugar producers agreed that the price for the next crop which the Fede?a‘l Government is buying, be increased to £3O ten for raw isugan K ' BUSH FIRES», 1 HOBART, This Day. Bush fires are raging in the Zeehzm‘ ldistrict. They destroyed the Little lHent.y river railway bridge and wreck» led telegraph lines. % ENGINEERS’ STRIKE. ‘ ‘ FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. ._........... MELBOURNE, ‘Feb, 17_ ‘ Although no official advice has been {received from the executive of the ‘Marine Engineers’ Institute, members of the Victorian branch maintain that I negotiations for an early settlement I are proceeding. It transpires that the 3 amended proposalto pay engineers 20/ monthly over the wagesloifered by the owners when the last ballot was taken emanated from the engineers’ execu‘tives council, not the owners or the Government. as was g_;‘enerally bQli(}vQd_ It is now proposed that a tribunal with an independent umpire sit immediately ships are manned to settle questions of higher rates, overtime, and bropical 3]. lowances.

SHARE MARKET SENSATION. MELBOURNE, Feb. 17. Badak tin shares have produced another sensation on the stock exchange. Yesterday they sold at £650; ‘to-day they reachcd £2OOO on. favourable boring reports.