Australian News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 April 1914, Page 3

Australian News

jPER TKJiSS ASSOCIATION.| ELECTRIC TELEGEAPH —COPYEIGHT (Received This Day 10.15 a.m.)

NEW PORTFOLIO

Sydney, This Day. A meeting of the Executive Council took the first step towards creating a new portfolio for Public Health, deciding in favour of the appointment of Air Flowers who euters the duties forthw'th. The position carries no salary. A CHALLENGE.

The Hon. W. Holman made a direct challenge to Mr R. Meagher to test where each stood in the management of caucus affairs. He said: "It is evident that Mr Meagher is dissatisfied with my management ; that being so, only two courses are before him, to move that I be no longer leader, or withdraw from the party with whose management he is dissatisfied." DEFENCE. The Herald, in a leader on defence, says that it is satisfactory to Autsralians to find that New Zealand and Australia stand side by side in regard to the whole problem. Recent statements by the Hon. W. Massey and the Hon. J. Allen make it aWidantly clear that the profound wisdo?n To which the Rt .Hon. Winston Churchill referred to in his speech had been replaced by a profound distrust of the efficacy of a policy previously favoured in Australia and New Zealand, and which now was abandoned equally definitely by both countries.