AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1917, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RED TRIANGLE COLLECTIONS. - Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, July 17. Contributions to' Red Triangle Day are "till being received. £50,000 was asked for and £l-14,000 lias been received to date. New South Wales has contributed over £3,000 000 to various war funds. Victoria's contributions to the same » funds total i11,7'52,000. ', RESTRICTION OF SPORT. Sydney, July -17. A conference of representatives of sporting bodies and the State Commandant discussed the proposed restrictions and appointed a committee to advise the Government. BUTTER To'IBB EXPORTED. Melbourne, July 17. Negotiations are proceeding for the export of 10,000 tons of butter. Details are not available, although it is understood that the proposal includes the provision of sufficient refrigerated shipping space for even a greater quantity. It is expected that 300,000 cases will be available for export before the end of tin* year. AMMUNITION WORKERS DISCHARGED. Melbourne, July 17. Twelve hundred employees of the Colonial Ammunition Company have been discharged owing to lack of orders. STORAGE OF WHEAT. Melbourne, July 18. Mr. Hughes, in moving the second leading of the Wheat Storage Bill, said the stores would be erected at the seaports and the country price would be fixed against the wheat stored per bushel per annum. The Commonwealth was advancing £2,540,000 to the States for their erection. A VOTE OF CENSURE. Sydney, July 19. In the Assembly Mr. Storey moved a motion of censure on the Government for neglecting after-war problems, failure to protect wheat stocks, unfair | appointments to the Legislative. Council, cancelling Norton Griffith's contracts, and failing (o make adequate provision for shipbuilding. EXTENSIVE" REPATRIATION SCHEME. Melbourne, July 19. Tn the Senate, Mr. Milieu outlined an extensive repatriation scheme. The main features are the provision of curative workshops aflacW | 0 hospitals. Government training institutions, and homes for men totailv incapacitated, a special allowance of 10s additional to pensions where the latter am inadequate, the establishment of an artificial'limb factory under an American ei.-pert who is arriving shortly, a land settlement scheme involving (iO millions, the provision of factories and housing. Ihe guarantee of markets for the products of" small holdings and industries, the development of forestry and (lie Mmrav River Scheme. Central organisations will be established with local committees composed of private citizens and returned 'soldiers, acting in an honorary capacity. IMPROVED RECRUITING RESULTS Sydney, Julv 19. Recruiting in the Commonwealth has decided!\- improved, last week's total being 1009. The minimum number of recruits required is 7000 per month. BUILDING A CRUISER. Melbourne, July 19. In the House of Representatives Mr. Cook said the Government would shortly begin building the cruiser Adelaide. MORE GERMAN CRUELTY TO PRISONERS. Sydney, Julv 19. Mr. E. Norton Orimwalde. ,o'f Melbourne, who has returned from Switzerland, where his son is interned, said he had discovered his son. after being wounded in an air battle in France, remained nnsuecoured in a. German hospital when he refused to accord information as to the whereabouts of the British fleet, and told the Germans to > come out and look for it themselves. Ilis son was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, in a fortress on a charge of calling the Germans cowards. He served four months, and then was released and sent to Switerland lame and partly deaf. Mr. Grimwalde asserts that the British suffered terribly at the Huns' hands. !

SUPPRESSING Tlltf I.WAY. Received Julv 10, 5.15 p.m. Melbourne. .T>ily 1!)'. Mr TTughcs, in moving the second read in>: of the Unlawful Association Amending Bill, which aims at the I .WAY., said the previous Act was found to lie insufficient to cope with this (Trent menace. The larger portion of the member!* were the semiring of society, who did not voice the aspirations of organised labor, lint came into licinp; to defeat organised labor. They declared war against society, anil Ihe Government was accepting' the challenge. This body was flourishing, and funds were coming in freely. They threatened (o destroy the industry of the country, and sl<wl in the way of the country doing its best economically to assist the war, therefore thev could not be allowed to exist. The Bill provides for the prevention of the circulation of literature, and membership of the association renders persons liable to six months' imprisonniut. and the dismissal of any public servant who is a member; also the deportation of other than Australian-born subjects.