AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE PRICE OF SUGARBy Telegraph— Press Asan— Copyright. Received March 15, 10.40 p.m. Sydney, March 15. Mr. W. M. Hughes is conferring with representatives of the sugar industry with the object of arranging a three years' agreement under which the rates for raw sugar will be fixed; also a minimum wage for workers. Producers are asking for an increase in the rate of raw sugar from £2l to £3O Cs 3d a ton.
COMPLEX LABOR PROBLEMS. Received March io, 10.40 p-iti,
Sydney, March 15. Tho sixteenth annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce opened to-day. The president urgid conciliation towards the complex labor problems. INDUSTRY IX AUSTRALIA. Received March 15, 10.40 p.m. Sydney, March 15. Mr. W. M. Hughes, addressing the Australian Industries Protection League, said the Government had prepared a new tariff, but manufacturers nmst not .shelter behind it for all time. They must lay down plants and compete in the markets of the world, .fhn Government will no.t issue further paper money, getting back to a metallic l)asis as the means for the salvation of the world-
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1920, Page 5
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