MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

REGISTRATION OF WAR CHARITIES. LORD CURZON JOINS WAR COMMIT TEE. London, July 9. The Home Secretary's committee has recommended regulations compelling every war charity td registei. It mentions that out of £129,000 collected for the victims of an aided country there remained only a balance of £42,000. No accounts were published. In some instances swindlers conducted relief schemes until their antecedents were discovered. Lord Curzon has been appointed a permanent member of the War Committee. GERMAN AERO RAID. . NO DAMAGE REPORTED. (United Service.) Received July 10, 6.15 p.m. London, July 9. An aeroplane attempted a raid on the Kent coast this morning, but it was driven off At midnight aeroplanes bombed the south-east districts of England. Anti-aircraft guns were engaged. No damage has been reported. PURCHASE OF WOOL CLIP. AGITATION IN PARLIAMENT. PROTEST AGAINST PURCHASES IN DOMINION. Received July 10, 7.10 p.m. Lndon, July 9. The wool agitation is unabated, and is exciting interest in parliamentary circles. A number o r questions for and against the price offered have already been given notice of in the House of Commons. Hitherto similar questions were postponed, pending negotiations with the farmers, who point out that colonial wools have advanced 80 to 90 per cent, over the prices ruling early in 1914. Opponents declare that they will urge the Government to impose an excess profits tax on farmers if the demands are conceded. The agitation brings eolortal wools into prominence. Speakers at a meeting of the Lincolnshire Fanners Union protested against the Government allowing wool users to buy wool in New Zealand, while! stopping sales of English wool. The. Yorkshire Observer understands that the Government will not take action in the direction of acquiring the colonial wool clip unless the situation becomes more acute. [The British Government's decision to commandeei the English wool clip is part of a wider scheme for assuring an adequate supply for home industries after the war, and it is hoped that the Dominions will limit, temporarily at least, their exports to neutral countries, especially?.* the entire English clip will be required in the coming year's needs.]