Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 19 February 1915, Page 6

Australia

[United Press Association.] Sydney, February 17. The Australian Jockey Club has made an additional war donation of £725 for the purchase of a Red Cross motor lorry. The Federal and State Governments dispute the powers of each for the control of meat supplies on behalf of Britain. Mr Tudor declares that the State has nothing to do with the matter. Mr Canu is insisting that the soldiers must be fed, oven if the people here have to starve. He intends supplying the Imperial Government’s The Prize Court has ordered the delivery of the German ship Wogan to (lie Admiralty authorities. _ After inquiry by the Comm oditucs Commission, the Government seized 443 bags of flour and sold them to a Sydney merchant for shipment; to Queensland;and Victoria, Melhouviie* February 17.

Mr Pearce anticipates that elevcxx millions will be provided for military expenditure during the current year., two millions short of requirements, owing tsoennidg etaoinQDg-cmwfyp .owing to sending ■ ten thousand additional men.

Sydney, February 18

A thousand men, the balance of the first expeditionary force in German New Guinea, have returned, and were given a great welcome. ’ The Federal Government has prohibited the export, of leather. The Governor'has given his assent to the Meat Supply for Imperial Uses Act, but until the desires of the Imperial Government in the matter are known there will be no interference with present methods..