AUSTRALIAN NEWS
FEDERAL MINISTRY’S PROVISION FOR UNEMPLOYED.
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) CANBERRA, Jim 13. The federal Ministry makes provision. for £1,000,000 in estimates for the next year io aid State Governments in their efforts to assist unemployed.
DFiFENCE EXEENDITUIIE,
PEND ING REDUCTIONS
CANBERRA, June 13
Mr Green (Minister for Defence) explained the means whereby expenditure on defence is to he reduced by £500,000.
In the army there will he enforced leave without pay varying from one to eight weeks for all members drawing £221 yearly. The navy will have reduced the personliol of approximately seven hundred officers and men,, while naval reduction will amount to £320.368. There will be no dismissals I nun the air force. • .
CANE CUTTERS
SITUATION AT COONDI
(Received this day at 8 a.m.) BRISBANE. June 13,
Although two hundred Britishers ol ferccl for employment at the cane cutters at (foundi mill no one was engaged. Thirty-two gangs signed on and of two hundred and seventy-seven cutters employed over two hundred are Italians. The position is tense and the police are watching the situation closely.
ESCAPEE'S UECABTURED
MELBOURNE. June 13
Half famished, two of the prisoners who escaped oil Tuesday have been recaptured. I lie third man is still at large. When, caught the men were still wearing prison clothes and had nothing to cat since the time ol escape.
COMMERCIAL
MELBOURNE. June 13
’Wheat Is 7.'., (lour (Ml and fill los. bran and pollard £»• Oats :1s (id and 3s 7d. barley (English') 3s <>d and 3s gd, maize 6s and 6s 3d.
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