AUSTRALIAN ARMS FACTORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 23 June 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN ARMS FACTORY.

TO WPRK DOUBLE SHIFTS. SYDNEY, This Day. Senator Gardiner, vice-president of the Federal Executive Council, said he thought the difficulties encountered in the establishment of a double shift in the small arms factory would be overcome. A meeting of Labour men at Lithgow strongly resented delay and decided to notify M!r Pearce that the Amalgamted Society of Engineers was willing to supply all skilled hands required within a fortnight. UNNATURAL BRITISHER. MALIGNS HIS COUNTRYMEN. MELBOURNE, This Day. In an argument with other men, Leslie Bentley prasied the Germans, calling them, the cleverest race on earth and the German Empero a clever man though a tyrant. Referring to th e Australasians killed at the Dardanelles, he said: "It was good enough for them, they went looking for it, and they got it." Bentley was fined the maximum penalty of £lO. ALLEGED LIBEL. RASCALITY, RUM AND ROME. , MELBOURNE. Alfred Farthing,' • of the Legislative Assembly, claims £SOOO damages from Herfry Worrall, for an alleged libel contained in the words, "I have no hesitation in saying that Farthing secured his seat by three R's: Rascality, rum and Roma.