AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
FIRST OF THE COMMONWEALTH > SHIPS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, March 17. The crew which will bring the first of the ships built in America for the Commonwealth has left Sydney.
COST OF STRIKE. Sydney, March 18, An official statement of the cost to the State of the last strike estimates the losses in all departments as £15,?,045 and the losr. of revenue to the railways at £585,046, but against this is the estimated saving of expenditure of i'GOO.OOO.
AUSTRALIA WANTS STIRRING UP
i _ Sydney, March 18. Speaking at a fete in aid of the battlft" plane fund, Mr. Cook, referring to a Orman officer's boast that the Wolf's seaplane (lew over Sydney, declared thai worse things could have, happened. Jf ihe seaplane had attacked Sydney it would have stirred Australia up and enabled the people to visualise the actualities of war. Could they really realise what was happening on the otlic? su!° of the world their activities would increase a hundredfold.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1918, Page 5
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