GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 51, 21 July 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

J INDUSTRIAL 'BOARD PROPOSED. |sy Cable—Presi Association—Copyright Received 20. 9.5 p.m. Sydney, July 20. The daily newspapers and Employers' Associations ask for the constitution of an industrial board for their employees, giving applicants the right to bring the various awards which they contend press unduly upon them before the court for revision.

UNJUSTIFIABLE PROTECTION. Received 20. 9.5 p.m. Sydney, July 00. The secretary of the Wool and Basil Workers' Union applied to the Tariff Commission for an export duty of a halfpenny a pound on sheep -jkins, owing to the decline in fellmongering through the increasing export of skins. Mr. Justice Scholes dismissed the application.

A PCOfW'iE OF WORMS. Times and Svdney Sim Services. Received *2O. 5.15 p.m. New York, July ®U. Millions of worms are (levastating the gardens in thr districts round the eitv Their march lias been cheeked in places by filling ditches with petroleum.

EARLIER CLOSINO OF OAFES. Times and Sydney Sun Service*. Received '2O. o.' p m - Berlin, July %). There i-> widespread a |»)>icliondion in Berlin at the threatened earlier closing of cafes and dancing halls, which would mean that tourists and provincials would tease visiting the capital. The brewers and cafe keepers have been mollified by the announcement that none of the prominent resorts would he interfered with, but no additional all-night licenses would he granted. FORCKi: SI'.NTF.M'KJ). Sydney, .Tilly 2". (Ji;;-m' . tin young foreigner arre,tcd on .Time 22nd. wa« sentenced to two years' for forcing Australian £1 bank notes.