AUSTRALIA.
MARINE WAR RATES. DRY CANTEENS RETAINED. Sydney, January 8. The underwriters have notified that outward war rates via Suez are 5 per cent. Melbourne, January 8. The Federal Cabinet has considered the War Committee's recommendations with respect to liquor in the camps and decided in favor of the continuance of dry canteens and the early cloiing of hotels in the vicinity. A Wireless Corps is being formed for active service. TRAINING OP RECRUITS. Received Jan.'fl, 5.3 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 8. Amongst the more drastic -measures for the better training of recruits, General JlcCay recommends that where after repeated efforts they fail to become proficient they should 'be discharged. They would be of little use. in he firing line, and it is in the interests of everyone to get rid of them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1916, Page 5
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