Australia

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1915, Page 5

Australia

BUTTER TO BE IMPORTED. XEW SOUTH (WALES FIXAXCES. Received June 29, 0 p.m. Sydney, -lune 2!). The Government has decided to relieve the butter shortage by importation, but it has not yet decided whether private firms or the Government will import. I, Mr.'Hobnail anticipates a surplus of £IOII,OO'J to *->0(1,01)0 for the financial 2' c a r - _ ' TO GET MORE MEN. GEXEIUL WAR ITEMS. Melbourne, June 20. With a view of securing larger enlistments .Mr. Pearce, acting on the recommendations of a recent medical conference, has decided to relax the regulations so far as they refer to teeth and | height, also with regard to varicose veins as a disqualifying factor. This will let ill many men at present disqualified. A recruiting poster will be widely circulated and recruiting depots established in country districts. Mr. Pearce reiterates that there is pressing need for bigger enrolments. Mr. Fisher has received from tlie Imperial Treasury details of the conditions of the British war loan, with a request' to publish them throughout the Commonwealth. Sydney, June 2ft. Mr. Holnian is initiating an active recruiting campaign throughout the M.vte. Lectures will be delivered in <vcr\ centre bv Ministers and members ■if Parliament. A. German at Broken llill was sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment for io take the oath of neutrality. He ha.! just completed a similar sen!i nee. A ■prominent American manufacturer, writum; to r.si Australian friend, states (!' ,(. i'v ''u- i ' ' 'ove' ii 'u id has placed order-, f■eight thon-and million dollars I Cl.WUi:i») worth of war material in Hie I nil 'd St ate-.