AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BROWN MEMORIAL HOME. LUXURIES BOARD REGULATIONS. Auslralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Melbourne, May 20. Tin! Australian Methodist Conforemv lias decided to ask New Zealand to participate in the raising of £SOOO to establish near Sydney a training home for missionary sisters, to be known as the George Brown Memorial Home, in recognition of Dr. Brown's work for the mission. The regulations relating to the Luxuries Board have been gazetted. The powers include the restricting of importations with due regard to the question of industrial employment, and recomfiifiiding whether bounties or bonus shall lie paid to encourage the manufacture of goods. ALLEGED INCENDIARY FIRES. Sydney, May 19, ■Numerous fires in wheat stacks are .reported in the Riverina district widely apart. The police state that incendiaries are responsible. BRITISH SEAMEN FOE BRITISH SHIPS. Sydney,, May 19. A meeting of shipping and commercial interests at Newcastle affirmed the need of manning British ships with British seamen in tXe interests of national safety and retaining the whole personnel of the mercantile marine as a royal naval reserve. LOCAL OPTION TACTICS. Brisbane, May 19. Tho licensed victuallers waited on the (Home Secretary and protested against misrepresentation as to 'bribery and corruption in connection with the local option POII. . | j; ; IMPROVED LABOR OUTLOOK. Sydney, May 19. I The Labor Department report shows that practically all the men rendered idle as the result of the curtailment of public works have been absorbed in other directions. The continued slump in the building trades is responsible for a considerable amount of unemployment; otherwise the labor outlook, has i improved. INCREASED TRADE WITH JAPAN. Sydney, May 19. Australia's trade with Japan is steadI ily increasing. Last year the exports to I Japan were valued at £4,'G04,000 and . the imports of Japanese goods at £2,- ! 851,000. I ANTI-SHOUTING. Sydney, May 19. I The .anti-shouting petition asks Mr. Hughes to follow the examples of the Imperial and New Zealand Governments.