AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 113, 6 October 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

WBSTRALIAK WHEAT PRICES. Perth, October a. Th« Trade Control Commission hat fixed the maximum retail price of wheat as follows: —Firat grade 4a 10d, eeeosd 4s 6d, and third 4 S 2d. WRITING AUSTRALIA'S HISTORY. EXPORTS TO THE ISLANDS PERMITTED. Melbourne, Cclohc-r ~>. A proclamation stales th-it tin-. a-i----thorities will i.*>ue notes to the Tain of fourteen millions st' Tlintr ine''.id:it,j the 12 millions previously authorised. Mr Pearce, Minister for ]>f.-n<-i-. speaking at a dinner to Mr Beny, olFcial war correspondent, said Mr B saa 'ttould have to do more than report whi>t he saw dailv. 11.-; would hav. to yrr-.b: jart of Australia's history, which miiht be written on French or German soil. Svdney, October *>. Penm'asion has been granted for th ■ exportation of normal quantities of ei gar, meat wheat and flour to the gcuth Sea Mauds, including the New Edwides and Papua The Telegraph, in a leader on ftnancui" the T»w, savs that Canada will probab- - It have to face an expenditure of £3O, (/DOfxb, Australia, £-20,000,001). and New. Zealand, nay £10.000,000. Besides these, there are India, South Afren. and other • oosaeasions, and thev may be invoWtd fr as expenditure of fIOO.OOO.OOO.Thoush - the colonies undertake to fw» the liabil- ■ jtyt they can homily find the rrrnev urt- ' -assisted, font it "will probably be found ■■'-tw. fto British Government will come the Ponuniojtt| wita