CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

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Keceived This Day. 10.10 a.m

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Sydney, Ihis Day. ihe price for biscuits m increaseu by one penny per pound.

In view ol the inroads oh labour

Lhiougu die war and m anticipation oi a bumper harvest, the State Government is taking steps to organise all available- labour througn a conference oi Ministers of Agriculture arranged lo be held in Melbourne.

General Godley has replied W thu lion Mr Holmait, on bonali' of the Australians under his command thanking Mew South Wales lor her splendid sympathy with the wounded soldiers. li-j adds that such assurances, coupled witii the knowledge tliat the places ol the fallen will be filieU by u steady flow ol reinforcements, m an enormous source of satisfaction to the troops.

In the new" agreement between the .Federation of Marino '(stewards and Pantrymen's Association section) with the Steamship Owners' Association ,it is proposed to abolish tips. The insertion of a. new clause will provide that no member be allowed to accept aiiy "bunce" or tips, under a penalty for hist offence oi £5, for the second £10, and for the third expulsion from the Association, Members consider the acceptance of tips degrading, and prefer a fixed standard wage. The police have been empowered to arrest disloyal street speakers. Owing to the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis aud tne occurrence of' three deaths in Liverpool camp, recruits are not being sent to the camp for the tiino being. a iieath from the same cause is reported from the Victorian uunp. Melbourne, This Day.

Senator Pearce,, on behalf of tlie Imperial Government, has requisitioned all supplies of molybdenite, wolfram and scheelite, which are of vital importance for war purposes. The iiritish authorities have fixed prices at £.;j per unit for wolfram and £5 i>s for molybdenite.

The Hou. Mr Hughes has conferred with representatives oi the Amalgamated Zinc Corporation with a view bo extended smelting operations, so that Australia ill be able to deal with all her own concentrates and establish- a subsidiary industries.