MOTHER COUNTRY.
LADS OF 18 CALLED UP. TOR HOME DEFENCE. Received Jan. 23, 6.45 p.m. London, Jan. 22. The War Cabinet has instructed Lord Deriiy to call up all the lads attaining the age of IS .rears, ad as to train and employ them on home defence till they are 1 !►, excepting those apprenticed to a skilled engineering trade, and f.iiiy engaged on war work, shipyards, or munitions factories. WOMEN'S WAR WORK. CANNOT BE OVER-APPRECIATED. Dr. C. Addison (Minister of Munitions), speaking at the Mansion House, said women had done a splendid part in the war. Half a million were engaged on munitions production, and the numbers were increasing at the rate of 34,000 monthly. He paid a warm tribute to the work of the Young Women's Christian Association. .yord Sydenham said we could not over-appreciate women's war-time work, and their readiness to risk their lives. LIQUOR CONTROL PROPOSED NATIONALISATION. Received Jan. 23, 8.20 p.m. London, Jan. 23. Cabinet has instructed the Home Secretary (Sir George Cave), Lord D'Abernon, and Sir G. Younger to report on the liquor trade, so as to enable the .Cabinet to decide as to the practicability of its immediate nationalisation. The Liquor Control Board has decided on the drastic supervision of Glasgow licensed houses in the docks urea. OATS COMMANDEERED. London, January 1. Oats have been commandeered on the Doncaster market it 47s Gd. ' INDIAN REPRESENTATION ON WAR CABINET. Londpn, Jan. 22. The Secretary of State for India has stlieted Mr. James Most on, Sir Satvendra Sinlia, and the Maharaja of Bikanir to i-.ssi.st him to represent India at the special sittings of the War Cabinet. VOST-WAR TRADE. London, Jan. 22. j ord Balfour of Burleigh's committee fo: dealing with trade and commerce alter the war is accelerating 1 its proceedings in order to submit a report ti the Imperial War Conference.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1917, Page 5
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