AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

VARIOUS MATTERS Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.Sydney, June 2. The street collection for the Red Triangle appeal realised over £15,000, bringing tile total subscriptions to £33,- ; 000. The hotel-keepers in the city and suburbs have increased the price of colonial beer to 4d a pint. It is officially stated that the P. and 0. Company will discontinue the Australian service at the end of this month. The China service will also be discontinued. During 1816 there were 142S persons admitted to the State mental hospitals, being a record number for one' year. Melbourne, June .2 To date 26,30$ soldiers have returned suffering from wounds or sickness. Of these have been discharged, 4489 have re-emibarked, aridi'3go2 are still in hospital. •■■;,. CONFERENCE OF M*A!NOTACTURERS. Sydney, June 2. The Manufacturers' Conference resolved in favor of conserving freight space t and preserving the financial strength of the. Commonwealth l)y stringently reotricing the importation of unnecessary merchandise and luxuries, exporting manufactured and .partly, manufactured goods instead of raw material, co-ordin-ating businesses with a view to meeting after the war conditions, increasing the income tax in place of -war-time profits, imposing a tax to encourage trade with the Islands and British and Dutch possessions in the Eastj a compulsory system of technical education, and deploring that Australia had failed to adopt conscription. CONTROL OF, PATRIOTIC FUNDS. Melbourne, June .2. A' conference of delegates of State brandies of the Returned Soldiers' Association carried a motion that, in view , of the disgraceful administration of patriotic funds, the conference requests the ; I Government to unite all funds under ' Federal control.