ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 7

ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY

CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIA. (PBOM OUR OWN CORRBSPONDEKTJ SYDNEY, Bth October. Pending the reopening next week of the platform campaign for the stimulating of recruiting in New South Wales, where there has been a great falling off of late, midday open air addresses are being given in Sydney oa " Economy and Effi ciency " in relation to the war. .The epeeches, which cannot be said to evoke any great enthusiasm, amongst the listeners, consist in the main of earnest exhortations to the people to realise that tliis is a time of national crisis calling for serious, ungrudging saving and sacrifice, and the careful conservation and most effective use of our resources. The principal speaker has been the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Wright, who has made his utterances in 7 teresting by direct references to th« great sums which the public allow to pass for drink and betting. Of course such statements have called up a good deal of controversial argument In addition to the assertions made in the direct, interests of those attacked, critics reply that the Government has the power of raising by taxation, general or discriminatory, all the money it needs iov defence and other purposes; that it is desirable to as far as possible continue the local circulation of money so as to provide normal employment for people, etc. You are familiar with the conventional lines of argument on this aspect. There seems, however, general agreement with the urging that we should abstain from expenditure on imported luxuries. In the big cities there has of late been a big extension of the employment of women in the places of men who have gone to the front, in clerical and others forms of employment that does not call for physical strain, and a great many girls who would otherwise be living at home in dependence are now helping to provide the family bread and butter.

Capt. J. H. Ross, the well-known rifle shot, who also holds the King and Queen's medak for active service in the South African War, has offered his services to the Defence Department for the present war. A large number of Greytown residents arranged a very pleasant farewell party on Monday evening in honour of Dr. M'Carthy, who is giving up his practice in order to proceed to the front in Flanders. Messrs. F J. Nicholls and H. Benge, who are also going to the front, were farewelled at the same time. Trooper James H. Bremner died of wounds at Anzac on Bth September, left Gisborne with the Mam Mounted Force. He was twenty-three years of age. Ho is the eldest son of Mr. W. G, Bremner, who also went to the Dardanelles, and has been reported wounded, whilst the latter's second son, Trooper J. ft. Bremner, has been wounded, and is now in England. The youngest son, Gilbert, has also enlisted.