AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 118, 12 October 1914, Page 8

AUSTRALIA

"ALL WELL" AT NEW GUINEA.

SALE OF STATE-SEIZED WHEAT

.AVIATION SCHOOL TO BE ERECTED.

Sydney, October 10. A wirc'cs; message received from tlie troops in New Guinea states that all are - well.

,AJI the, wheat seized by the Government hji3 been sold.

• The Herald, in a leader, says the greatest geography lesson ever taught is .being taught to-day on the other side ot tne world. The millions of people who are looking at war maps are looking with special interest on the great island continent of Australia and that wonderful little country called New Zealand. We shall get no more letters addressed New Zealand, (Australia. The Government's intention to lay down another battleship and replace the lost submarine means that the war has taught a lesson we never would have fully learned without it.

Melbourne, October 10. Mr Hughes gave notice that he js introducing a Bill to prevent trading' with the enemy . >, Tile Government is considering the possibility of using the prizes for the establishment of a Commonwealth lino of steamships. It proposes to initiate a service between Tasmania and the mainland.

Instructions liavc been issued for the immediato construction of an aviation school building at Altona Bay, estimated to cost £IO,OOO.

A month's supply bill for £3,227,280 has been passed.