AUSTRALIA AND THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 185, 16 April 1915, Page 8

AUSTRALIA AND THE WAR.

MR FISHER. (United Press Assn.# Copy right .')> (Reed 10 »,&;)> y "'' ME April 14. : • The Federal Parliament has opened Mr Fisher, in a iment dealing vn-.h ss■&. 'Australia had C : jpatohed, cr in camp j 70,101 troops-, T^O'lSihc-^v.ami ■Hs9s J vehicles. The totalHrumfev £f : fnen (sent abroad 'V h - 3 - r; " j changing ptflKj? .Avas to train, equip, and transport to f th e seat of :mmcem& : aa-vailable man It of help in..d^t'e.?.tjgng : ji|a enemy. The Government had Requisitioned hyeatytwo mills, \vhj-eh , vwrkmgUo the orders'running >o''lw, ; . million yard:;, of cloth for uniuS-rni'sf er.;>' Vivd .a-yu-'irter will ion" yardS / 'f;rr ,f^hh-ts! -n da quarter of a mi'iitn { Respecting .the Fisher said he expected thai 'th& s j:.ruiser Brisbane would be the destroyers completed" this yea.**.*"-. | M-- Fisher ettf.vf that eighty per .oeni. of t;:; e trfSovs-rwer-! Auatru-llaa-born. .. ■ ; .,. sSjJ _. ;i ! Touch-in.-}' r h. ,>?!'•-Ji.->r -.<M<! that present and e.-Miinatea j showed the revenue '-iv-s* uha v- -<• t .o jbe in ,';;o v/hola suuJ, 'though thara'"wciili! bti -;i ■ub.-m.je, it .was unlikely to cacea seriuua * era- ' barrassment. The. »,> th,-» t twenty ebvhth of Fvfcrsaty wh-h S:M - |*36,070, and the rcxa!p«a JB2'-.M*7.957 jTOrnvared with tbo of £:;>>. i?.51,214 for th 3 whrh, year-. .'iV-ww j expenditure would exceed tha -a*+i. mates but it would ba met cijt'f.-f ths .additional loan of:six and a half mil- | lions granted by the imperial Govfrn'.ment, making a total of 'twenty-four and a half million? to be received up to the end of December. Mr Fisher said that tha A Ilia? fnpod : the opening- c f the spring with the h igh est hopes of.success.