AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 27 April 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

GERMAN GOVER_NOR‘OF ' AUSTRALIA, V

Received 10.10 a.m.

SYDNEY, This day.

Speaking at Bathul's't, General Birdwood said amonguthe Gvermans recently deported from Australia was one who held the Kaiséi'ss commission for the ofiice of Governor of Australia.

The Labour Bureau report shdws that there were eight thousand unemployed in Sydney. MELBOURNE, this day.

» The grain ‘harvest ‘in Victoria during the past. season totalled 14,858,380 bushels, compared_with 25,239,871 for the, previous 4 year. .

A fire in Zander’s Free Store in the city caused damage.to the extent of £20,000. . V 0

One thousand five hundred unionists engaged in the building_tl-ade decided to adhere to the .p‘rinciple of a fortyhour Week, pending the result of a ballot on the question. If _employers stand strictly to the ultimatum not to employ men refusing to Work a. fortyfour hour week, the building trade on Tuesday will be paralysed by the suspension of Work, which is half lock-out and half strike.