AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 15778, 15 April 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS

GREAT DEMAND FOR SEED WHEAT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, April 15. (Received April 15, at 9.5 a.m.) Owing to the, recent beneficial rains, tho demand for seed wheat has so greatly increased that the Government now fear they will not be able to meet it for eight months. CO-OPERATORS, TAKE HEART. SYDNEY, April 15. * Up to dat'i the State bakery has mad# a profit- of £2,783. WH OL E-SOU LED CONDEMNATION OF DRINK. SYDNEY, April 15. Sir Thomas Stuart, the eminent surgeon, coun-eL ail who value individual as well as national efficiency to avoid the use of alcohol in any form, even in the smallest quantities. He assert.? that the present war has proved that alcohol is the most soul and body destroying substance the* nation has ever known. ftinee it, inauguration in 1901 the Commonwealth has spent 25 millions sterling on national defence and 180 millions on a leohM. LICENSING REFORM. I i SYDNEY. April 15. j Sir Thomas Stuart also advocates the I ek-sing of all holeb at the same hour as other shops, and that public-houses shall j \.o really shut on Sundays, with no back--1 door entrance, as now. | 1 THE JR R EC'ON Cl LA B LES BUSY. j j SYDNEY. April 15. i When the State Parliament reassembles I next week the Leader of the Labor party | will move a wanl-of-eonfidence motion, | based on alleged errors of omission and i commission by lhe Holman Administration, i pai t-ieulnrly regarding the control of prices I and commodities mi dor their special war | legislation. WHAT NEW ZEALAND OUGHT TO HAVE HONE. SYDNEY, April 15. fßeceived Anri! 15. at 9.45 a-.m.). Attorney-General Hall states that the wheat acquisition business has resulted in a profit / f £17,000. and that the operations will comlnde with a surplus of from £25.000 to £-0.000. It has been the most sin ixsi-fiii business ever embarked upon by AUSTRALIA’S CHIEF NAVAL BASE. MELBOURNE. April 15. Giving evidence mi the question of naval bases h- foje tlm Federal Committee of Public. Works. Admiral Cresswell said he t hough! ilirn Pur; Stephens would ultimately ho the chief naval .base. T EST CASES. PERTH, April 15George Fredericks and Hans Christensen sued tin: Fremantle Wharf Lumi ers’ Union Ur damages caused by the union's prohibition of rnember.s from working with Germans. whether iiaiitralised nr not. Both men were naturalised Britishers, and had married Australian women. It was on-r'-ud-'d that they had forfeited their rights a- German citizens. A verdict was given for Fredern Es for £l2O 7s and for ChrietLTCENSING REFORM FAVORED. PERTH, April 15. The agitation in favor of the redaction of the hours of licensed houses in this State extending.