AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13525, 6 November 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

CHARITIES’ COLLECTION. Beauty and the Box. SYDNEY, October -£o. The collection-boxes rattled all over Sydney on Saturday, when collections weretaken up in aid of GO charitable organisations. The market rate for a smile was a penny, while in at least one instance a whole kiss was sold for a sovereign. Of course, in very many cases the smile was given and never paid for. but in many others beauty and her box proved irresistible to the male person with loose tram fares, and the total dragged by youth and sweetness from the public pocket amounted to ,£2220, which is a substantial increase on last year’s figures. ENGLISH CRICKETERS. “Wine” Money for Amateurs. With respect to the financial conditions of the English cricketers’ visit to, Australia, Australian papers state that,- as a general rule, each professional receives .41300 iu addition to out-of-pocket . expenses, which amount to £2 a week in Australia and 3s a week on board the, ship. This .£3OO is not paid in a lump sum, but is divided into throe instalments, distributed as follows: —,£l7s during the tour as required, .£25 for purchase of kit, and ASIOO on the completion of the tour. All travelling expenses are paid by the Mar.ylebone committee. Amateurs receive, in- addition to expenses, .£7O each as ‘’wine” money. NO SOLDIER SERVANTS. Federal Minister’s Fiat, The Federal.Minister for. Defence (.Senator Pearce) issued an order last week directing that the practice of detailing soldiers to act as officers’ servants, and orderlies in camp and at schools of inttmetion was to bo discontinued. Stops were being taken, also,'lie added, to provide civilian orderlies to replace tho soldiers acting as orderlies in the offices of district commandants and at the central administration. It had been found that a large number of men who should ho trained as artillerymen had been taken from their duties. It was not considered, desirable that these men who had enlisted to serve as soldiers should he sent to duties of a domestic character.