CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[KLBOiniG IKLKQIUI'U—COPTBIGHI.j 1 [MSB JPUKBS ASSOCIATION.] ) ~~~ .- (Received This Day b.To a.m.) f AUSTRALIAN N'EWS. r Sydney, This Day. Australia Day funds total £OUB,BOB. , Dr Bray ,in charge of the. venereal i clinic, at Prince Alfred 'Hospital, gave • some startling evidencq before the ■ Secret Diseases Commission. He said . that from January to the end of June 1200 eases were treated. IPaitdonts were constantly sent away hecause it was impossible to accommodate them. It now was arranged that hvo hundred would be treated weekly. Many respectable married women iiad been infected innocently and a great number of children hail to be treated. From twenty'to twenty-live children under JO years ol age were treateu weekly until recently. Cabinet has decided to mstal Sir Geral<i Strickland at Government House. A number of country recruiting associations have no tiffed the Hon. W. Holman that apathy ami lack of enthusiasm in regard to recruiting prevents success in the country districts. One says that the sooner the authorities coldly face the inevitable and com- ' pel the shirker to do his part the sooner tho war will end. It is announced that the cruiser Brisbane will be launched on the 14th Septelniber and the destroyer Swan on the 29th September. Tn flic House ot 'Assembly the appearance ol an early-closing petition produced an extraordinary coiuitordeinonstration. Numerous petitions, totalling 150,085 signatures, m lavo-jr ol non-interference wore presented ly private members. Mr Brown submit ted a motion in favour ol early closing. He said he knew there had been no mandate from the people to curtail licensed hours, bub the world had undergone a great change since the las. elections, and ho pointed to the hours in the other States. 'The debace stands adjourned to September 7th.. In reply to a question about closing the Stadium, in view of the recent anti-recruiting demonstration, the xiouW. Holmansanl that the sudden closing of the sports grounds would throw large numbers out of work. Other measures were greatly increasing the numbers of recruits available lor military service, and the question of utilising those engaged in non-productive uork was under consideration.