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Show LIVING MINIMUM WAGE IS DEFINED Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON'. April 2fi. A definition 1 of tt 'H livlnp minimum vao In Australia n mm just botMi embodied In a ilecree dellvora mm by Juutice Hcydon, president of llio in- mm dustrlal arbitration court of New bouUi mm AValcs. wlio, nftor an exhaustive Inquiry mm into tho cost of living In Sydney oCi- mm floa thut the lowest class of unsk lloo lu- mm bor must receive $12 a week. Ihis Jtuln mm Is btiHcd on the oxistence and nccan 01 mm a family of two parents and two depnuq- ' mm ont children. He found that tlm m mum r.ito or rent in Sydney was M a tmm week; nilKcoJlaneous expenses;, lnclu5:ri mm fuel. llBbl. clotblnpr nd Insurances, .w-ia . 53.50. wldlc the remainder of the $12 was mm consumed In food. In hla dcclolon. the Judge wn? suidnfl :mm lnrjiclv bv tho now fumous decision of mm Justice liiBRins. who In the Hurvcaler mm case decided thnt $10.60 weekly was a mm "fulr and reasonable" atandard to meet mm the normal needs of the average em- mm plovoo, regurded aa a human being- living :. La "n ci-rtlUed country." Zmm |