Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 253, 5 April 1915, Page 5

Australia

LABOR CONFERENCE.

STORMY TIMES PREDICTED.

Received April 4,5.5 p.m. Sydney, April i. The Political Labor League Conference has opened, Mr. Dick Meagher presiding. He emphasised that the conference was supreme. They wanted no political mandarins or bosses.

If anyone allowed the idea to form th.it any- parliamentary party was superior to the conference then labor was ripe fr.r disintegration. lie favored wiping out the Upper House.

Mr. Holman, defending the Upper House appointment!), foreshadowed the appointment of another batch of Labor supporters. Those demanding its abolition were more desirous of destroying the Government. The House had limit with the matter in the only way possible, by pushing the Labor' programme through in a few years and bv filling tilt vacancies so as to establish a House which would consent to its own destruction. Matters arising out of the war were now so settled that there was no longer any need for the Government lo withhold carrying out its programme. The conference promises to be stormy, as the agenda includes several resolutions censuring the Government.

CONTROLLING THE BUTTER

MARKET.

Received April 4, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, April 4. The Government lias taxed the price of butter at for first grade, 1245; second, lifts; third, 114s. Mr. Hall has issued a warning that unless supplies to meet the public demand are made available at these prices, the Government will seize butter.

PROHIBITIONISTS PLEASED.

Sydney, April 3. Temperance! bodies me gratified at the example of the King in the antiliquor movement and the success of the early closing vote in South Australia. A movement has been started in Tasmanian to emulate South Australia. The temperance leaders claim that the wa> is doing much to disillusion the community on the liquor question.