AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2591, 13 October 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE CALL FOR MORE MEN RECRUITING CAMPAIGN IN THE STATES. By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright Melbourne, October 12. Senator Pearce announces that <i recruiting campaign mil bo undertaken in all tho States in rotation. The next will probably be held in Queensland. He deprecated the fixing of a definite quota, as to' the proportion. required from any State, the numbers requested by tho Imperial authorities were an irreducible minimum, and as many more asi can be obtained will be gladly accepted. . Brisbane, October 12. Sis hundred and sixty-six men enlisted last week, NEW FORCE FOR GERMAN NEW ■ GUINEA. Melbourne, October 12. _'A now force is being'raised for service in German New Guinea, consisting of three hundred men fcom thirty to fifty yoars of ago. . [ALLEGED SHIRKERS WITH HIGH SALARIES. Sydney, October 12. • r At a meeting in the Town Hall Bomebno in tho body of the hall asked why men drawing high salaries remained at homo while the working men were asked to go to Gallipoli.. ■ Amidst' an .expectant" silence a returned wounded soldier • struggled forward, and replied, "I will tell you why they don't go; because -their war is here. If we had not men like Mr. Holnian we. should not havo. tho organisation to send the men who ought to go. Wo want men of Mr. Holman's stamp hero. We are willing to go baok and fight for thom." THE MAKING OF MUNITIONS. RUSH OF TENDERS FOR KHfIT.T, ; CONTRACTS. N Sydney, October 12. Sonator Pearce (Minister of Defence) announces that tenders for the manufacture of 18-pounder shells havo been accepted from the New South Wales Government, the Queensland Railways, nine Victorian finns, the' Newport workshops, tho South Australian Government, the War Munitions Company, ■Western Australia, and two other firms. The earliest date for delivery is Novombor 1. HOW JAPAN IS HELPING. Sydney, Ootober 12. The Commercial Commissioner, in his last report, says that marked attention is being paid in Japan to the manufacture of munitions for the Allies. Ho predicts_ that in'view of the largo demands prices for lead, copper, aino, and other metals will reach record figures. SHIPS' OFFICERS; COMPULSORY CONFERENCE TO DEBATE CLAIMS. Sydney, October 11. Mr. Lawrence, isecretary of ithe Merchant Service Guild, announcos-that it is impossible to settle the 244 claims for incroases which tho guild is malting without the intervention of tho Arbitration Court. The guild, therefore, is Exiling for a compulsory conforenco. CHAFF AND HAY PRICES. DISPOSAL OF NEW ZEALAND SHIPMENTS. (Rcc. October 12, 11.30, p.m.) Sydney, October 12. Before! the Commodities Commission a representative' of the produce merchants intimated that they intended to ask for tho proclaimed prices for chis? and hay to be lifted in order to allow of tho disposal of three thousand tons of Now Zealand straw and chaff which wore'imported under ,an assurance from tho Government that no opposition would be offered to merchants placing it on tho market.

Soon afterwards the Commission recommended a reduction in the price of chaff, and the holders of the New Zealand chaff objected, as there was a clear understanding from the Government that there would be no interference with their importation.