Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 22, 24 September 1915, Page 5

Australia

United Prkss'Association. (.Received 8.40 a.m.) Sydney, September 24. The membership of the New South Wales rifle clubs is 36,400, compared to 14,500 last year. The Baptist Union adopted « resolution expressing deep indiguation at the authorities p'erniiitting a continuance of prize-fighting, -horse-racing, and all other like untimely and unseemly sports in this, awful crisis in the world's a Hairs. A meeting of representatives of the Railway Workers and the Australian Workers' Union, whose reported amalgamation, cabled fon 26th April, could not have been ■eonipleted, held a meeting, supported byjdelegntes from many trades' unions arid Specialist societies, and carried a resolution protesting against conscription r.n every form. The meeting formed itself into an AutiConscriptioiiist League, and a committee was formed for furthering an anticonscription propoganda. Sydney, September 2- - 5. In the Kidman case Colonel Wallack. New South Wales commandant, in the course of lengthy evidence regarding military"* contracts, said that Major Page's military career was without fault, and he knew him to be, an honorable ahd straightforward man. Kidman's application for increased contract prices was not a solitary one. He had personally dealt with two cases, and if he saw injustice being done he'granted the increases. He wanted to give everybody" a fair deal. The Government is subjected to continuous heckling in the Assembly ovfer the employment of Germans in tTie public service. Inside and outside it,he House there is a strong demand for a clean sweep.; , , „ Mr Black has issued an order to the police, stating that owing to the number of soldiers seen drunk in the streets and hotels the. Licensing Act must be enforced with the greatest severity in Liverpool and Sydney. He adds that the number of drunken soldiers in the streets is a reproach to the community.