AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

REGISTERING BULLS. . By Telegraph.— Brass Assn —-Copyright. Received. Sept. 13, 9.25 p.m. Adelaide, Sept. 13. The State Treasurer announced at an agricultural conference that the Governj ment had decided to legislate to provide i‘for the annual registration of all bulls. PROHIBITION PROSPECTS. Received Sept. 13, 9.25 p.m. k Adelaide, Sept. 13Mr. “Pussyfoot” Johnson has arrived ’to study prohibition prospects in Australia. He says that if the United States remains “dry” Great Britain will be dry by 1930. • THE 44-HOUR WEEK. Sydney, Sept. i 3. It wad stated in the Federal Arbitration Court that the 44 hours week at the Cockatoo Dock will involve an extra cost of £70,000 a year. THE BASIC WAGE. Sydney, Sept. 13. Representatives of some of the largest industrial concerns in the State have asked the Board of Trade to fix a bas’c wage of not more than £4 a week. A decision is expected on October 8. HISTORY OF THE AORANGI. I l Sydney, Sept. 13, I News has reached Sydney that the steamer Aorangi, formerly a New Zea- I land trader, which was sunk in Holm I Sound for wai purposes, been refloated and is doing duty as a hulk. VICTORIAN POLITICS. Melbourne, Sept. 13. The Victorian political crisis is expected to terminate to-day by the Government offering to back a voluntary wheat pool to the extent of 4s per bushel. The Farmers’ Party are pressing for a compulsory pool.