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Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1917, Page 5

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SYMPATHY WITH ENTENTE, ' " ' Madrid, May 28. ; Twenty thousand people attended |a jgftat Liberal rally and expressed sympathy with the Entente. 'Reactionary papers demanded the prohibition -of ■meetings, but the Government refused Jo do this. After the .meeting colli'eiohs occurred between neutralists and anti-neutralists which required police inJ«rV«iiilbi».'' ' ' .'■ ' \ ' ' ' DOMINION'S PART. 1, ;<•-■.■.; _ . ■ MILITARY SERVICE. , STATEMENT BY MhNISTERf I By Telegraph.—-Press Association. ."•' Chriatchurcb, May 29. On his'way through Christclrurch to Wellington, the Acting-Prime Minister] said te had been credited with saying j that 'England was not taking men. of 4* „ *rid 43 years of age. He did not know [Kbit BritaWwas doing but New Zealand Was not taking men of 44 and 45 unless' they were' specially fit, and was not sending, men of the same'ago from England to prance. , Speaking of oiieß,',rcjected in camp as unfit, Sir .James said that they had; been given leave without pay,, this Wing done to prevent them from going into the ballot. He desired to'let B|frh.njen, know, however, that they could . ii«i.the ordinary pension forms to apply ■ ©Js# pengipn, and, if the Pensions Board denied;in their favor, they would be igiven an;equivalent in pay, although it epuld. not/be called a.pension strictly as they were not discharged. '"' Sir 'James' gave an assurance' that - nif had no intention of • retiring from politics. ; When asked to amplify his ' sostiiern'utterance on the subject, he tenSarJted that he was speaking to his and bad said he did not tepect to remain very much longer in politics *t his age. It was quite a nat-ural-remark, and be did nop think any notice would be taken of it. SHORTAGE OF MARINE ENGINEERS.Wellington, May 29. j ' Before the Third Military Service ] Board, Mr. Kennedy, local manager of 'fchoTUhidn" Company, stated that at present there was a deficit of 31 engineers fcut of the total requirements of the iemnany,. namely 86U • The operations bf tW ballots would tend to intensify 'the position" of the company. He had tendeavored to get men, but had found to do so, as men would hesitate to exchange the substance for a shadow, j.e., a permanent appointment ashore 1 for temporary' employment a* Be*. 'fffIMENTS FOR COMMANDEERED PRODUCE. Wellington, May 29. '"lfe-JSflperial Supplies Department Bailout on account of the Imperial Govclmenfc fot various lines of-produce to May 26 £52,343,«95. The biggest item was frozen meat, £1«,892,806 Nes* came wool £10,746,715; cheesy IMS-16 season £917,748; cheese, 1916-17 season,, £2.470,1)00: scheelite, £71,700; sheep* ,sl:M 8 , £134,684; Ufe, jng companies, shje w«ol, £072,853, either business, £138,303. MORE ABOUT EIGHTH BALLOT Wellington, May Z':.. In the eighth ballot, which is br-lii;. taken to-day, 8545 names will be drawn. shortage for the 32nd Reinforcements, jnobifsing two months tei«, w IS9B, which is the largest to date under, the voluntary system. Every district) Hs a shortage, as the voluntary recruits duly numbered 379 for the who e SomLonf three Canterbury districts Stained 17 recruits, and West Coast *°Tnere thus remain in the First Division 6nlv sufficient men for another three ballots, with a few thousand over. This means that the First D.v.s.on will L exhausted bv ballot in 12 weeks, and then must come the re-examnation of" men placed for home service also a 'revision of exemptions, before the Second Division is drawn on.