AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3649, 10 December 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

POLITICAL. -Received 11.50 a.m. .SYDNEY, This day. The Legislative Council read a second time the Increased Salaries Bill by 28 to 10. The third reading was carried on the voices without amendment.^ In the Assembly ,Mr Cann, introducing tbe Forty-four Hours’ Bill, said that eighty industries were already working 44 hours a week. He urged employers and employees where practicable, to mutally arrange to work a little longer each day and abolish Saturday wbrk. The second icad’ng was carrier on the voices.

UNEMPLOYMENT. MELBOURNE, This dqy. Unemployment is rife in many industries, confectlMTery and rubber trades and isomo branches of the wool and. clothing industry is stated to be the worst for twenty years. A RUMOUR DENIED. MELBOURNE This flay? Mr Cook has denied the truth of a cable message stating that the Commonwealth is contemplating a ten millions loan.

! BOXING. i | The Amateur Boxing Committee refused permission for Harold Hard- ! wick to be reinstated as an amateur. STORMS IN NEW SOUTH V7aI.ES. SYDNEY, This day. A gale, with torrential rain continued throughout the night and continue® unabated. Some low-Tyihg suburbs are flooded. Country reports state that the rivers are rising and there is considerable "flooding. The suburbs of Newcastle are under watery and numbers of families are marooned There is widespread damage to fruit crops. The full extent of damage done to wheat crops cannot too estimated. In Some districts it is very serious. Floods were also experienced In the. South Coast district.

A LUCKY FIND, Received 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. A gold nugget weighing 134 ounces was found in the Bathurst district.