CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 238, 5 October 1916, Page 5

CONSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN.

AUSTKAXIAS PBOBLEM. tnnoHisTs , opposiTioar. (Australian and X-2. Cable Assodaaoit.> ; SffiLBOURXi; October 4. -In the Federal Senate an attempt to delay- business until .the Government rurther explained its military policy collapsed, Mr. John Hunan's amendment for a rurther adjournment until Tuesday being defeated, by 16 votes to 8. Mr. G. F. Pearce, Minister for Defence, declared that the Government would take full responsibility for the proclamaj tion accompanying regulations. He J Joetified-.-th* tnumb print requirement being applied, owing- to the numbers of Jmen who went to the front-.on certi&ate* issued to others, and then were returned unfit. - ■':■■ -\' . - _ . ._■■' . Forty, thousand unionists, who- assembled on the bank of the River Tarra, earned a motion against conscrintion. . . SIBXET,; October "4. The anti-conscriptionlsta refused -to face the wet weather, and the proposed "stop-work" demonstration in the Domain was abandoned.. Later, & .meeting in the Town Hall, Tsrhich was attended by „ 5,000, unanimously demanded the withdrawal' of the proclamationi. CATHOUCS ACT THE ISSUE. .:. HOT A buvnCß MATTER. (Auatrallaa and STZ. Cable Aasocfation.) CRecerred 10J0 ajn-L 'SSDNET, this day. Archbianop Cerretti, - head of the Catholic- Church Is Australia, in a letter to the Coadjutor Archbishop of Brisbane defining the atetuSe of the Catholics Church, to conscription, says it is unreasonable to Invotre the Church, in an issue which its members as citizens arecalled upon to decide. For tfiat reason he is sure that the subject should not be delivered in the pulpits of Catholic churchee. . BIUSBA2CE cABKPAIGH •UCCXeerCIXT SAUirCHED. Unctnllu and >'.Z. CβWe AsmxUtloa.} (Keeeived 11.45. ajn.} . __, -BRISBANE this day. THe Federal Premier (Mr W. iL Hughes) has successfully opened the conscription campaign. A gathering of 3,000 antl-conserfptionists outside the halt, where the meeting- was held was rnsied by- soldiers and dispersed. At an orderty meeting- of unionists a. motion opposing conscription was Mseed. ".-,"■: TASitAlflA KOTAK. (Australian, and X.Z. Cable AssocJaUoa.) . (Received 11.45. ajn.> , HOB4BX, this day. The resolution to hold "stop work! , ?«*ings in opposition to the. conscrlpion issue was ignored everywhere in raemama except at Queenstown and jormanston. EUGIBKE MEK TO REPORT. ? ■ \ SYD3SEY, -this day. \ v regulation provides that all 'ligible men must report by - Monday BIGGER BRITISH REVENUE. EFIXCT OF WAR TAXATION. LOSTDOX, October 4. The revenue for the past veax was £319.3.56,000, compared with SQO last year. The revenue from thsm;ome tax'hae. risen to £53^74.000.