AID OF THE DOMINIONS.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. (United Press Association —Copvright.) MELBOURNE, July 7. Supporting his contention that Australia had done more to assist the Empire than.'any Dominion, Air Fisher has issued a statement comparing the Commonwealth’s efforts with that ot New Zealand and Canada, maintaining that in order to reach Canada's contributions in proportion- to population they would have to furnish 72.000 men. hereas they had raised 91,000- New Zealand’s contribution was equivalent to 84,000 from Ana-f-rdia, approximately the number already sent, beside? the assistance of the Navy, which Canadians realise protected their Esquimauit dockyards from Vmi - dcurr-dations. The Conimonwealtlc bad also presented tneAA’ar Office with r motor transport column, costing £290,000, and had given effective aid in hospital shipsand ambulances, in Egypt alone providing 7450 beds. It had created an efficient transport service, costing £IOOO daily. Recruitng is brisk m Sydney and promises to surpass previous records. Victoria is accenting 1000 nien daily. Mr Holman is instituting a scheme whereby the police are obtaining lists of eligible men in country districts.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3977, 9 July 1915, Page 5
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