AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

, v WAR LOAX. Melbourne, January 2,">. The Mutual Life and Citizens' anee Company is subscribing £1,000,000 to the second war loan. It subscribed similarly to the first. The. Treasurer expressed satisfaction at the response to appeals for subscriptions to the second war loan. '■SEED FOR ECONOMY. .Melbourne, January '!'•>. A note was sounded at the half-yearly bank meetings on the urgent necessity for strict economy and the possibility 'of great financial sacrifices before tho war is ended. RK-XAMED. Melbourne, J.cui.'ir.' £3. A piujl'iinaiioii has been issued which renames Herbertshohe (Xew Guinea) Kokopo. . <> ' GERM AX OFFICIALS DISMISSED. Sydney,, January 23. Mr. Griffiths announced that the Government had removed from the public service every unnaturaliscd German, also naturalised but not married Australians. WHEAT COXCESSIOXS.: Sydney, January 2(1. The Commission lias awarded farmers an extra threepence a bushel above the price fixed by the Wheat Acquisition Act where losses are incurred thereby. Mr. Hall states that the possible lose on the wheat transaction" is £IO,OOO, for Victoria £BO,OOO, for Queensland £30,000, for South Australia £30,000, for Tasmania and Westralia heavy losses,