AUSTRALIA

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 September 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

CONSCRIPTION ISSUE REFERENDUM DEBATE. (Press Association. —Copibiohi.) (R-ec. 11.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In the House of Representatives the referendum debate was continued. Mr Burns moved an amendment that conscription was inadvisable. If the Government's proposals were carried out he said, they would ibe destructive <>f the best interests of Australia. Mr Archibald, supporting Mr Hughes said the enemies here were not Germany, but men who got Germain gold. He suggested the deportation of the members of the I.W.W. Mr Anstey, denouncing the measure, said there seemed to be an organised determination to draw out of the country the whole of its manhood. He claimed 1 that the number of men asked for weekly was utterly disproportionate to the weekly casualties. He concluded:, "They are going to draw up immense forces far beyond requirements, and stretch out the line and increase the slaughter." TJfce amendment was negatived (by 49 to 12. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTY LIST. (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. ,■„ List 217 contains the following New 1 Zeal and ers : Wounded : Sergeant C. H. Johnson ; Privates F. Henderson, J. Riley, J. Larsen, E. K Lyon, T. Gilliatt, J. Smith (second occasion). SOLDIERS' PAY. (Rec. 9.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. . Harry Ratimore, a pawnbroker, was fined £IOO on three charges of having [accepted assignments of allotments of soldiers' pay. The interest in oiie iri- [ stance amounted to 320 per cent.