AT HOME.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2516, 10 December 1914, Page 2

AT HOME.

PROBLEM OF THE MEN'S WIVES (Received Deo. 10, 8.45 a.m.) London, December 9. There have been many protests against the War Office regulation requiring the police to keep registers of soldiers' and sailors' wives, with the right to enter the houses to ascertain that the seperation allowances are not abused. The London police have greatly modified the regulation, avoiding the home inquisition, and those wives accused of drunkdnness are subjected to persuasion instead of prosecution: It is still demanded that the women should spend the allowances as they please, subject to ordinary law. - Lord Moulton, presiding at a meeting of Lancashire and Yorkshire businessers, explained the national dye works scheme by which the Government proposed that the dye works raise £3,000,000 of share capital if the Government guarantee a debenture issue at £1,500,000. Lord Moulton said £2,000,000 worth of dyes were used by Britain annually, which was essential for industrial products valued at £200,000,000, in which 1,500,000 men were dependent. Only one-tenth of tho dyes were now being produced in Britain, and the stocks were rapidly diminishing, and Germany was putIting on intense pressure to prevent Sweden giving help. The meeting unanimously approved of the proposal.