AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 24 September 1914, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATION.

Sydney, September 22.

Tn Iho Assembly, Mr Holmes stated that he proposed to introduce a Hill to permit loans to be raised at a higher rate of interest than 4 per cent., also a temporary measure of retrenchment in the public service. Regarding unemployment, he said that only 3 per cent. of the population of Xew South Wales was unemployed. The Government contemplated building canvas houses during tho summer for families without homes.

FEDERAL PREMIER SPEAKS.

WITH BRITAIN TO THE END.

Melbourne, September 29. Mr Fisher, at the Show luncheon, took tho opportunity of assuring his hearers of the co-operation of the Federal Parliament with tho Mother Country. He said that her Dominions were with her in success and in her difficulties. Australia would tell her again and again, and the enemy, too, if lie careJ to hear it, that she was prepared to be sacrificed with her if the necessity arose. A farmer informed the Commodities Commission that the present wheat season was the worst for 4li years.

STOCK EXCHANGE RE-OPENING.

Melbourne, September 22. The Stock Exchange will resume business next Monday.

VARIOUS ITEMS.

Received 23, 10.43 p.m. Sydney, September 23.

Tho Federal (iovernment permits ono official war correspondent to accompany

tiio expeditionary force. The export of inare 3 from Australia has been, prohibited.