AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

TRADE WITH THE ENEMY. AFTER THE "WAR PROBLEMS. Sydney, Sept. 15. Mr. H. Y. Braddon, speaking on after-vthc-war problems, pointed out the .danger of a prohibitive tariff on German goode. If they prohibited Germany selling in the Empire markets alio would refuse to buy also, and concentrate her energies on capturing our trade in neutral markets, which she /would 'he enabled to do owing to low /wages and chea<p cost of production. Instead of a prohibitive tariff he advocated a fairly stiff one, protcoting manufacturers and favoring Britain and the allies. The solution of Australia's problems lay in the encouragement of primary production and big exports, and| the discouragement of imports of a luxurious character. It was the duty .pf the Government to postpone afi works not absolutely necessary. One Australian handicap was the faot that they did not get an adequate day's work for a day's pay. CHURCH'S VIEWS ON CONSCRIP'■HQN. i Received Sept. 15, 11,80 a.m. ■Melbourne, Sept. 15. |.> The name of the Rev. Scott West, jvith the title of Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly, appeared in a manifesto of the Universal Service (League. A meeting of the Presbytery passed a motion declaring that though the Moderator's name appeared it in t no way committed the Presbyterian phurch to the policy of conscription. The Rev. Mr. Burgess upheld tlile .voluntary system, contending that it had not received a fair chance owing to the general bungling and the lack of business methods.