AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MANUFACTURE OP MUNITIONS j By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ Brisbane, March" 13. j The Queensland Government has de- j cided to defer the manufacture of mu- - ! hitions by private firms until the re- j sources of the Government are ex- ; hausted. . .' ! The Government's aotion. is due to i the engineers' nnion objecting to the j sub-letting of shellmaking. > ' ; GAS A NECESSARY COMMODITY j ■ i ■ .i By Telegraph—Pras Association—Copyright \ Sydney, March 14. . \ The Equity Court has dismissed the i Gaslight Company's application for an j injunction restraining tiie Commodities Commission from declaring gas a neces- ■; eary commodity, the Court holding that .j gas is a necessary commodity. : j SECRET societies; : t IN. THE/LIVERPOOL CAMP. ' v , Sydney, March 13. j Speaking at the annual breakfast of , | the Irish National Foresters, Arch- ! bishop Kelly declared secret societies ' were very strnog in Liverpool Camp. I The cry of "Down with..Kelly!' was ! raised; lie would answer "Down with j Freemasons." • ..." 7 i EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS. • i SUGGESTIONS BY [HE TRADE. . ] Sydney, March 13. ! The licensed Victuallers' Association i proposes 9 p.m. closing for hotels. It i urges the Government not to- hold a • . j referendum, as it will he impossible .to : obtain a representative opinion' when J the country is in a state of hysteria, i and 50,000 of the male population are . j absent owing to the war. . ! It is stated that the early closing ! campaign will cost the association and its opponents £30,000. j DEATH AND INVALIDITY. , A PRELIMINARY REPORT. j /Rec. March 15, 0.40 a.m.) ~ _ Melbourne, March 14. The preliminary report of_ the coffli ' mittee appointed to investigate 'tha causes of death and invalidity says th& ' enormous power for evil attributed to ' alcohol _ and- tho contagious ' group ot I industrial diseases needs special treat- • ment. " . . * ; PRICES OF WHEAT AND FLOUR. j MILLERS AND BAKERS DISTURBED | , (Rec. March 15, 0.40 a.m.) ; ■ -Sydney, March 14.-' ■ The fixing of the' prices of wheat and j flour lias cansed much heart-burning j and trepidation amung millers and i ■bakers. .... .... j

• Senator Pearce (Mmisterof Defehoe), j referring to the millers' proposal to | restrict.the output, said;there .was/the j power 'of comniaJideering' and'Tecpiwi- 'j tioning, which would be very useful if j anything of , that kind was intended. ! FAIR RENTS.' j FIRST CASE IN COURT. Sydney,. March 14-. _ ; In the first case before the Fair i Rents Court, Mr. Fingleton, M.L.A.,- I granted a reduction from eighteen shillings . to sixteen' shillings./V' J JAPANESE VISITORS. TO BROKEN- HILL 'MINES. j (Rec. March 15, 0:40 a.m.) ; Sydney, March 14. \ , Representatives of the Min< , 'inn ' and ' Smelting' Company "<sf Japan inspected the Broken Hill mines with ; j;the-object of seourisj; contracts_ for , | certain metals to supply big munition orders the company is filling for the Allies, particularly Russia; aTso Tor tho .j purpose of studying Australian mining j methods. ' -.• - • , . ! ' IMMIGRATION BUREAU. j A REPORT OQJfFniMED, i (Rec. March 15. 0.40 a.m.) ! Sydney, March 14.v The' Premier' confirms" the* report "that tho. joint .New South .Wales-Victorian j I Immigration/Bureau in -; London has i been dissolved," as immigration is eh- ] "tirely suspended. •