AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3582, 18 September 1920, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

AUSTRALIANS DEFENCE POLICY.

Received 10.40 a # m. MELBOURNE, This day

In the Senate Mr Pearce, in dealing with the Defence Policy explained that youths in their eighteenth year wmuld undergo thorough individual training for a ''period of ten weeks and 118 days, spread over four years, after which only annual registration would be required. The maintenance of rifle clubs as a reserve would no longer be a military necessity, but in view of the clubs’ past activities the Government ig ear-marking fifty thousand to cover their expenses,, also for providing ammunition to the value of thirty thousand. A combined naval and military*'air force will be organised under the Board of Plying, for equipment, and for financing officers.

LABOUR DIFFERENCES

Received 10.40 a m

SYDNEY, This day.

The executive of the Australian Labour Party, has issued a manifesto denouncing the atti ude of the Trades Hall towards 1 advocates of irritation strikes, and recommending such extremists be expelled from the movement

The French Government is making Tahiti a great fuel oil station for Pacific shipping. Three large tanks, capable of storing 1000 barrels is in course of construction.

The Kakapo has arrived from Greymouth.

CAUSE OF UNREST.

LOCKED UP LAND

MORE PRODUCTION ESSENTIAL,

Received 8.45,

SYDNEY, This Day

Mr. Storey, addressing the Millions CVifb disclaimed extremist revolutionary methods of solving industrial unrest. His way of dealing Avith those advocating that Australian workmen should follow the example of Italian workmen, by seizing all means of production. would be to send them to Italy. If employers would undertake to take more Interest in the welfare, of workers, he as. Head of the Government, would; obtain a reciprocal undertaking from, the workers. The .veal remedy for unrest was increased production by forcing locked up land into use. Large entailed estates were a curse to the country, and would have to be swept away. Holders of land must be forced to use it, or to disgorge.

BRISBANE ELECTIONS,

PARTY POLITICS OUTLINED,

BRISBANE, This Day. In vie wof the forthcoming' elections Mr. Barnes, leader of Nationalists, outlined his party’s policy. The chief planks are: no increase of taxation; no retrenchment; reduction of membership of the Assembly to fifty, and the Legislative Council to thirty; adult suffrage for elections to both houses; appointment of ministers of Labour and of Health; freehold tenure and increased immigration. Mr. Vowlos, leader of the Opposition, disposed that the chief planks of party policy were: —encouragement of primary and secondary industries; removal of .railway from political control and placing of the whole sugar industry under Federal control.