MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

( MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS. By Telepaph.—Prejs Assn.—Copyrifbt Received Sept. 17, 8.55 p.m. London, Sept. 15. In Addition to Mr. Lloyd George's •message, nine other members of the Cabinet outline the future of their departments, including Mr. Churchill* who Bays: "We contemplate having an army not substantially larger than before the war, but better paid and equipped and on a voluntary basis." Lord Milner says that the United Kingdom and Dominions are partner nations, not yet of equal power, but all lof equal status. The time will come when the Dominions will surpass the United Kingdom in wealth and population. The paramount duty of British statesmanship is to see the free union, gloriously maintained durfcg the war, strengthened in the years to come. Sir Eric Geddes visualises the casual dock laborer in the future living in a garden city, putting in his spare time in •the garden and called to work by telephone from the docks, thus abolishing the present hanging around street corners.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ■ THE NEW ARMY PAY SCHEME. Received Sept. 17, 9.20 p.m. »*'" London, Sept. 15. I In the new army pay scheme a private Recruit will receive 2s 9d daily for the first two years, and 3s 6d after, plus Sixpence proficiency pay; a sergeant 7s, and regimental major 14s daily—Aus. Cable Assoc.