AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

! POPULATION STATISTICS. T ' ®A\K TOUT, t v; Auetralian-N.Z. Cable Agsooiatloßi. 1 Sydney, Marei 30, The New South Wale* .Statistician'* ' report for 11)16 shews & decrease in population of 22,030, as a result of tha despatch, of 58,000 soldiers abroad. Tha total population at the end of 1910 wu ' ■ 1,817/jOO. At that. date tho" State had contributed 108,000 men for tho right? ing line. , Subscriptions to patriotic funds t<e ta led £2,804,923 and to war loana £3a,;KQ,OOO. The Commonwealth Bank made B profit for the last half-year of £153.972. ■ * compared with £83,908 in the previoui period. In the Savings Bank section, the deposits increased by £1.331000- £ the bank holds £7,868,000 in gold eouC 1. Authority has been given to extend'tt? 'J note issue to 48 millions, \ I 'J DISLOYAL STATEMENTS ' ~'i Received March 30, 935 p.m. Sydney, March 80, , The executive of the Political Labor • > Leogue at a special meeting certain alleged disloyal statements mmfa < j by Brookfield, the recontly-elected ntgH ber for Sturt, at Broken Hill, and askedt - him to repudiate or withdraw them, v • failing which to show cause why hq should not 'be expelled from the move* J;»ii ment and not alloyed to sit at the fan S liameutary Labor Caucus. " w I ■ *.— <, HKLWKa THE CAUBB. Sydney, Last Night At the annual meeting oT the Mutual \J ' Life and Citizens' Assurance Company, the chairman stated that the company lied in one way or atoother contributed 1' upward of five millions to financing th£