Timber Industry In NSW Queried By Assembly Members
Inquiries probing New Zealand firms supplying the timber trade in New South Wales yielded no firm details on such agents. The timber sector lacks a state award, complicating employment condition scrutiny, while workers compensation coverage hinges on defining workers under the 1926 29 act. Respondents noted no sustenance for those refusing subcontracts and called for further facts to assess legislative need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Bennett
MLL
New Zealand
New South Wales
Reduction Bill Aims To Cut Debt In Crown Lands
In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday the Agriculture Minister introduced a bill to reduce indebtedness to the Crown and to the Ute Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, lower annual rents for lands in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, and ratify government readjustments of settler affairs. Debtors to the Rural Bank outside the Commission were to receive consideration. Hankinson described the Murrumbidgee area as a successful settlement but criticized its socialist foundation, predicting many settlers will accept freeholding in three years. debate was gagged and the bill passed on voices.
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Mr. Main
Legislative Assembly
Crown
Ute Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission
Murrumbidgee
Hankinson
A.C.P. Murrarbingee
University of London to Build Piled Foundations
Concrete piles driven thirty feet into the ground will support the new University of London buildings. They are to cost 43,000,000 and are designed so that any required internal alterations for future years can be made without touching the outer shell.
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University of London
Locust Plague Averted by British Efforts in Sinai
In the House of Lords the International Locust Conference discussed strategies to curb a looming locust threat to agriculture across the British Empire. Major Jervis Pey and Edward Ballard Bey mobilized locals, dug trenches, and deployed flame throwers to burn millions of locusts that had invaded the Sinai Desert and threatened Egypt’s cotton rice and fruit crops.
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Egypt
Moses
House of Lords
Jervis Pey
King Fund
Sinai Desert
Jervis
Cairo
Edward Ballard Bey
Ministry of Agriculture
Miraculous Machine at Paddington Station Stuns Officials
A London Paddington switchroom houses a wooden bridge like device said to predict train arrivals. Four girls, including Miss Mary Miller, operate levers and buttons to control a listing mechanism that seems to know schedules, with officials unable to explain how.
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AA S.qusic
Tuduen
Paddington
London
Great Western Railway
Torquay
Newton Abbott
Exeter
Taunton
Westbury
Reading
Pashington
Mary Miller
Women’s British Wrestling Championship Thriller at Club
Two thousand spectators watched Ivy Russell defeat Peggy Farnell in under 9 minutes at a Baker Street London club. Farnell, a Pimlico draper’s assistant, was outmatched as Russell secured multiple submission holds and the fight ended with the crowd relieved it was over. Russell expressed concern about injuring her opponent. Farnell stated she might request a rematch.
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Baker Street
London
Peggy Farnell
Pimlico
Ivy Russell
Croydon
Ivy
Peggy
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Gloucester
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Kepu
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E. P. Capper & Sons, Ltd
West Maitland
Columbia
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