AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1921, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

CHARGE OF INCENDIARISM. Br Talacrapa.—Fm Aaan. —Copyright Melbourne, April 20. Primental, who was charged with having set fire to the factory of the Federated Films Company, was remanded to April 26, with hail m £5OO. EXPENSIVE LABOR. Darwin, April 20. Figures showing the cost of removal of two trees from an aeroplane ground show that 20 men were employed for 17 days at a cost of £767, including £B7 for motor-cars to take the men io and from work. [The pay for this strenuous toil was naturally high. It works out at £2 per day.] COLLIERS IDLE. Sydney, April 19. All the collieries in the Cossnook and South Maitland coalfield are idle because the miners allege that an employee has been victimised. Approximately 2000 miners have ceased work. BROKEN HILL STRIKE. Melbourne, April 20. Giving evidence before the Arbitration Court on the claim of the Amalgamated Society of engineers, counsel for the Broken Hill Proprietary stated that owing to the competition of Belgium and elsewhere and the unsettled state of the labor markets, the company would probably be compelled to dismiss 1000 employees from the steel works. THE 44-HOUR WEEK, s Sydney, April Mr 3’ , Ls'Jke Beeby decided on the 441 J... WJi? r.Ts- the saddlery, fancy leather exempted the tannic. and J? industries, which at piK® n ‘ “ e experiencing a crisis aggravated JjJ increasing labor costs. \a