AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 203, 8 May 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

_—_— -&. PAPUAN PROGRESS. • ITS GOVERNOR GRATIFIED. RUBBER CULTIVATION OLD-IDEA EXPLODED F.'e»s Association —Copyright. (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. ! Judge Murray, Governor of Papua, j v;lio is visiting Sydney, i s gratified with the development of ths territory. j The area under cultivation last year | increased by 7,500 aeres_ There are new 43,000 acres under cultivation. The old idea that Japanese labour ',[•■ required to cultivate rubber has.ex- | jjlcded. The Papuans have proved ! very apt in learning tine business. A GOVERNMENT COMPACT. i NO LICENSING INTERFERENCE MELBOURNE, This Day. At the annual meeting of the LicenI Mad Victuallers' ' Assocpatidji jtf was ; announced that the Government had ' entered into a compact that there ; should be no interference with the ! trade by Parliament till 1917. BELGIAN DAY, AN ACTOR'S OFFER. In connection with the Belgian Day, , en May 14th, which is being organised throughout the State, the actor, Mr i tiup/h Ward, h;.;s offered £SOO if nineleen others give similarly. There are •i-j./'y eh-.ven offers. j AMERICA FAVOURS THE ALLIES. j PRESIDENT Y.TLOON CRITICISED. j SYDNEY, Th.is Day. Eighty ;-<"• "3'rt. cf the peimhi':":*! j•- * th e United States are in favour of ; ~ AH if-" rr* <'---v-v- criticisa Mr il'-rcu'cj policy, says Sir Dc-v.Y!as Maw '"•; •::-:• : - . 'he h:;s j - :- ': :: ....■- f"-Tm s t- h- u n America ;; Yuu don't know wliat T suffer" i: i a remark often mnde by those tortured h-sy Rliemn?. tiara., Govt Lr.r».V.g o , or j ! Sc-iiitica.. Yei. st:'""' :o s-xy, in;'!?- \ I ■ wtimic !••■! nu!:-? .'. >.• . f-.-r.-ni .•■ ; : i I •- ].,,;, ■ ' j nLa -IT "