AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 252, 16 July 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

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SYDNEY, This Day

In the Assembly Mr Graham stated that the Government intended guaranteeing four shillings a bushel for wheat grown in additional areas this coming harvest. If . growers got more all the better. He outlined a scheme for bulk wheat handling providing an elevator with a capacity of one and a quarter million bushels in Sydney, and fifty-five smaller elevators in the country. The whole cost of the scheme is 2| millions.

At the Farmers’ Conference Mr Bdeby hid 'paliqijal "had been degraded, politics had bo semblance to a democratic machine in .denying th e right of a substantial majority to any political representation. Th e only way to overcome this was by proportional representation. The meeting decided upon following Mr Plank’s platform of electoral reform, national insurance, decentralisation/ a -vigorous policy of immigration, extension of rail-ways, closer settlement extension, and definition of th e Federal Powers. MELBOURNE, This Day. In the House, Mr Fisher stated that th e Imperial Authorities had accepted the Commonw r ealth’s offer to double the October and November reinforcements, making 10,526 men a month instead of 5263; also to send one infantry brigade with bridge signal section brigade, train and field ambulance, to leave in November. Mr Fisher introduced a War Loan Bill of £20,000,000 which is to b e applied only to expenses of the war and borrowing.