APPEAL TO THE FARMERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 21 September 1915, Page 5

APPEAL TO THE FARMERS

BRITISH ACRES MUST PRODUCE MORE ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, September 19. Lord Selborne, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at a conference of agriculturist? at Bristol, Baid that the production of more food during the coming year-in England would help the nation greatly. The fight was not only with armies and fleets, but with finance, regarding which in a few days they would hear from Mr. M'Keiuia (Chancellor of the Exchequer)'. The burden caused by the war was something quite tremendous, and the farmers were going to pay very heavy taxes. He _ would not ask them ■ to diminish their capital, but to sacrifice their leisure and convenience, their customs and habits. _ Returns showed that there were thirteen hundred thousand acres less_ arable land in England than .ill 1595. In the present emergency the.v needed increased acreage. He asked the farmers and landlords to set an example to trades unionists, and appealed to them to depart during tho war irom customs in which they were rooted.

THE CALL OF THE MOTHERLAND CONTINGENT FROM CENTRAL AFRICA Caps Town, September -17. At the Motherland's request, the Union Government is raising a'Central African Imperial Service Contingent. UNIVERSAL SERVICE LEAGUE IN - AUSTRALIA SPEECH BY MR. HOLMAN. (Rec. September 20, 10.55 p.m.) • Sydney, September 20. At an overcrowded public meeting of tlie "Universal Service League, executivo officers tfere appointed and a platform adopted. Mr. W. A. Holman (State Premier) emphatically declared that the voluntary system in Australia had not produced anything-like the result in Britain. We wanted nothing but a system that wild double or treble our, numbers at the front. Other speakers favoured -universal service. EVERY MAN WANTED. Melbourne, September 18. Senator Pearce, Federal Defence Minister, in a statement regarding recruiting, emphasised the.fact that Australia wanted all the men she could get, and would not bo content with fixed quotas from each 'State.