AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
■BUSH FIRE& By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, Oct. 28. The drought in the north coast districts is aggravated by heavy bush fires. Much pasturage and a number of residences have been destroyed.
EARLY CLOSING OF HOTELS.
Sydney, Oct. 28. Tn the Assembly, Mr. Holinan, in introducing the Early Closing Bill to close hotels at 11) p.m., said the Victorian measure of the kind had now been in jorce for month.*, but had made 110 visible improvement, and drunkenness had increased. [lie Minister of Defence had asked tor an early closing Bill for the purpose of safeguarding soldiers, and but for his request there would be no such Bill before the House, He was moving it only 6n the ideas of the Defence Department, not on his own. It was with great doubt he introduced the legislation.
Mr. Wade's amendment altered the time oi closing from 10 to 9 o'clock was negatived.
The Bill passed the first reading.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 7
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158AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1915, Page 7
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