AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 22 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

VARIOUS INTERESTING ITEMS.

j ~ (Reed 8.40 a.m.) ' SYDNEY, This Day. Tn JPHssembly Mr Holman stated naturalised men and women •of German birth were in th e Public Services, whom fee Government had decided to retain in the service. Neither other States, nor the Federal Government were interfering, or intending to interfere, with naturalised enemy subjects in their respective employments Sd lon(g as there were no -sign of disloyalty. A meeting of underground men at Broken Hill passed a resolution to fight for a 44 hours' week, to commence from midnight en Friday night. 'The figiat would b e carried on by working forty hours a week until the -whole union-was granted the 44'hours tl week. It is only the underground -workers that w,ill carry on the actual •fighting. • - '. MELBOURNE, This Day. Mr Fisher deprecate s the idea tihat a wealth census will be taken preparatory to wealth tax being imposed. A Victorian branch of the Universal Service League has been established. A BISHOP'S WARNING. CONSCRIPTION OR DEFEAT. (Reicd. 8.15 a.m.) This Day. The Bishop of Bathurst. in Ms presidential address, at tih e Anglican Dio--cesan Synod, fervently supported the Universal Service League, and said there was a very real danger of Britain being badly worsted. This wa s not "because they wer e lacking in resources, but because 'of the democratic disability to control all the available re-

sources at one time. He ridicules the voluntaryism -Statement that England always relied •on voluntaryism and pointed to the old lime press gangs and he deprecated the sentiment that one voluntary was worth ten conscripts. It was time we •had done with silly British bluster, the courage of other troops was equal to our own. Nothing hut conscription was able to meet the terrible wastage that must result from Kitchener's new armies jqiaing. To my mind it is as [clear as day that it was either conscription or the acceptance of defeat, as it is the only course open to us. History has shown that compulsory levies figSht equally well as voluntary •eniister s when cause is a national one. The example of the great democracies !n France and Itally should be enough to show how insincere the proteistaJk tions are of those who appeal to the democratic policy. (Reed 9.25 a,m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Auditor-General's report shows increased receipts of £507,999 as compared with 1913. Direct taxation has increased £627,011; railway and tram.waty" receipts' decreased by £24,055; . ih e public debt tha s increased by £ 11,040,374, wMch is now £137,735,405. Six State industrial undertakings aggregated a loss of £33.222; eight aggregated a (gain cf £32,495. The "nett loss involved since the inauguration of undertakings totals . . MELBOURNE, Thi 3 Day. " At a meeting of the Federal Munitions Committee, Mr Pearce announced that all the States tendered fer the manufacture of munitions, with the exception of Soutih Australia and Tasmania. Private firms are to be paid a flat rate 'of 21/ for each complete shell body up to the.2lst March next. There is no limit as to quantities they may deliver. Nine hundred and fitfy-flve war pensions were proved, involving an expen"t -diture of £30,009.