AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1921, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WHARF LABORERS’ PAY. By Telegraph.—Press ASsn.—Copyright, a Sydney, Feb. 22. The wharf laborers have accepted the owners’ offer as interim agreement as follows: 2s 9d per hour, 3s 9d from 5 p.m. to midnight, and 4s 5d till 8 in the morning. JAPANESE DUMPING. Sydney, Feb. 22. Mr. Suttor, New South Wales agent in the East, reports that prominent bankers and commercial men in Japan are preparing a scheme for dumping manufactures in other countries, as the first eleven months of the past year showed an excess of imports of 370 million yen over exports. The scheme is being carefully considered with the view to balancing exports against the excess. The author of the scheme is the Governor of the Bank of Japan, who is urging manufacturers, bankers and exporters to co-operate in stimulating the export trade. MILK SHORTAGE AT SYDNEY. Sydney, Feb. 21. Sydney is threatened with a serious milk shortage. The distributing companies to-day received only 2000 gallons instead of th'e usual 42,000 gallons. The Attorney-General announced that if dairymen deliberately withheld milk supplies they would be liable to prosecution under the Profiteering Act. The Milk Employees’ Union passed the resolution that if country farms refuse to send supplies to the city the Government will be requested immediately to commandeer the dairies, and the Union will find the necessary labor to milk the cows and distribute the milk. The Lord Mayor indicated a scheme by which the milk supply of Sydney could be municipalised. He stated that the Minister of Health approves of the idea, and the City Council would push on with it as rapidly as possible.