AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 26 November 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

A REDUCTION IN WAGES. AN "UNPATRIOTIC BANK. Melbourne, November 25. On appeal, Mr Justice Cussen reduced the wages of clerks, excepting in the metropolitan area, as fixed by the Wages Bo ard in August. The wages of women, whose pay was fixed as equal to that of men, was also varied. Mr Fisher lias'roundly condemned the alleged action of a certain bank in insisting 011 one of its officers who has joined the expeditionary force resigning hid position, thus preventing others volunteering. WHEAT SHORTAGE QUESTION. NEW CALEDONIA'S CONTINGENTS A RIOT SUPPRESSED.

Received 25, 5.15 p.m. Sydney, November 25. Mr Holman has returned from the Melbourne conference. He says that he is hopeful that the States will act in unison in dealing with the wheat shortage question. The Bill proceeds to the Assembly to-morrow. Commencing in December, New Caledonia will send a hundred thoroughly equipped and trained men to the front monthly. The Changslia reports that, while lying at Hong Kong, German agitators caused trouble in the Chinese quarters by fomenting contempt for British administration. A thousand soldiers with fixed bayonets found a ring round the rioters like a fence of steel and quickly restored order. ANTI-NAME CHANGING LEGISLATION. Received 25, 8.30 p.m. Melbourne, November 25. Mr Hughes proposes to legislate to prevent Germans and Austrians changing their names.