AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 11 December 1915, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

NO "PEACE MISSION" CARS

WANTED IN AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, This Day. 4 Senator Pearce states that, in viewV* of Mr. Henry Ford's present peace mission, lie has issued instructions not to purchase any more Ford cars for Defence purposes. AUSTRALIA'S RIGID LAW. RESPECTING ENEMY GOODS. MORE SEVERE THAN BRITISH. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. A proclamation has been issued further restricting the importation of enemy goods, and even those gooc's imported through neutrals. The law has been made more rigid than the lav,- of England, and will even affect goods imported into England under license and exported again to Australia.

SYDNEY'S LORD MAYOR. SYDNEY, December 9. For the election of Lord Mayor, AlAderman Hogan and Dick Meagher were the only two candidates and they -■load-heated. The meeting adjourned for a week in order to obtain legal opinion n the positon. Prior to the election the Council, on Mr. Gunber'fi ~>ot;cri, decided to reduce the Lord Mayor's allowance from £ISOO to £IOOO STATE BREAD MONOPOLY. THE POSITION IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, December 9. The caucus finaly endorsed the Hon. Ti. R. Hall's State Bread Monopoly Bill. The scheme is ot cost approximately £600,000. The Government is resuming the whole of the existing bakeries required, from whence the present cart delivery will be continued. Later on a central bakery, equipped with the most, modern machinery, and a fleet of motors, will replace the 40 scattered bakeries and horse carts. The Operative Bakers' Union passed against the scheme, which will meana resolution emphatically protesting the dismissal of hundreds of workers. PROTEST BY EMPLOYEES. SYDNEY, December 0. A general meeting of employers enterde a strong protest against the State bread monopoly, asking that before the scheme is adopted the Government appoint Royal Commission to quire into the commercial and cial aspects. m