COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 7

COMMONWEALTH CABLES.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[United Puebs Abbooiatiqn.]

Sydney, January

Tlie coal expoft restrictions continue to delay shipping, and the Newcastle collieries are idle. The Y.M.C.A. in Egypt is making appeals for funds to establish more recreation huts.

Despite the A.M.A. announcement that the men are permitted to supply power to the munition works at Broken Hill, they remain idle. .Melbourne, January 25.

At the conference of Ministers of Agriculture, discussing the wheat pooling scheme, Mr Hagelthorn stated that they were supplying the Allies with two hundred thousand tons of

wheat or Hour equivalent, and expected to export seventy-two thousand tons of our within three months. Dr. Wade, the Government oil expert, has departed for Papra to report on the oilfields. The Government has decided to train their own drillers instead of importing them from Canada.

Brisbane, January 25

The Government is negotiating for the purchase of four coal mines in the Ipswich district, involving a sum of £75,000.

(Received 9.20 a.m.,! Sydney, January 20

Judge Murray proceeds to. the Solomons to investigate the planters'' requests to import Papuans owing to the scarcity of labor. Brisbane, January 26.

At the wool sales comeptition was keen and prices showed live to fifteen per cent, of an advance.