AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 20 August 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS.

SYDNEY, This Day., (Reed 8.30 a.m) Most Broken Hill mining companies have joined forces in establishing a Central shell shop. It will probably be seven or eight weeks before the regular shell output commences there and elsewhere. The Lithgow ironworks announce tha£ -they already manufactured suitable shell steel. SYDNEY, This Day. (Reed 9.15 a.m) A portion of the new Bursaries being established in public schools is devoted exclusively to children of fallen soldiers. Mr Black states that owing to scale nigging, racing club applications for licenses will be refused unless they put concrete floors in the weighing rooms. Mr Holman has appointed an Investigation Board to inquire into patents useful in war. The price of flour is reduced 7/(5 a ton from Monday. ADELAIDE, This Da'' In the Assembly a petition for the resumption of old hours was presented by the City Corporation on th j grounds that the vote in the Adelaide district was overwhelmingly in favour of closing at 11.