AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1916, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATIONS. ~ l THE WHEAT CROP. Melbourne, December 14. Mr. Hughes gave notice of the introduction of a Bill to deal with unlawful associations. Referring to the wheat deal, Mr. Hughes said that he hoped in a few days to he able to make a statement regarding, the 1018 crop, which he understood the Imperial Government was purchasing at 4s Od a bushel. CASUALTY LIST. Sydney, December 14. List 250 contains the names of the following New Zealanders:—lll: SecondLieutenant C. ,1. Blomfiehl, IPrivate If. Gibl). Seriously wounded: Second-Lieu-tenant P. V. Starkey. Missing: Sergeant G. E. Wells. Wounded and prisoner of war: Private J. Maepherson.

NEW ZEALAND'S ARMY. TIME TO ORGANISE OUR MAN AND WOMAN POWER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Wednesday. Mr. Allen's statement, probably' in tended to assuage the anxiety of nervous people, that members of the Second Division of the Reserve were not likely to he called up "for another ten months," he turned attention afresh to the fact that New Zealand has raised '75,000 men for the Expeditionary Force, of whom some 00,000 have been actually sent awa.v from the country. This is the De-minion's contribution to the war in two years and a half, and however long the struggle may continue it is committed to sending away 2500 more men each n'.cnth. These figures, though by no means dismaying, have set serious' folkthinking about the future, and more and more, of them are coming to the conclusion that it is time the Government ui.fiertook a systematic organisation of the man power, and even the woman power, of the country. Already the pr.'inarv industries are feeling in a shortago of labor the effect of indiscriminate recruiting, and if this goes on till the Second Division is reached the results may be really embarrassing. The politicians are talking about a session of Parliament immediately on the return of Jir. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward to the Dominion to consider the position.