PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
I'Kit i'lii'.ss 'Association., Wellington, July 1. The House of Representatives met at 2.30 p.m. The Prime Minister, in reply to .Sir Joseph Ward, who suggested that the Government should arrange for one or more steamers to carry grain horn the Bluff to Sydney and Melbourne, said that lie would he glad to look into the matter. Incidentally, the Premier mentioned that 36 vessels were available for shipment of produce Home during the next four months. These vessels would lift about three million"
BETTER THAN OTHER DOMINIONS.
I In reply to Mr (i. W. Russell, the Minister of Defence stated that he received no such cable as was said to have come to Australia asking lor every available man with or without equipment. On the subject of Now Zealand's share of men sent to the war. lie did not wish to make comparisons with Australia and Canada, or anywhere else, but he could give the House the assurance that we stood out miles ahead of any other part of the Empire, both in men sent and men \ in training.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 53, 2 July 1915, Page 7
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182PARLIAMENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 53, 2 July 1915, Page 7
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