Empire Outposts.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 316, 28 December 1916, Page 5

Empire Outposts.

CANADA.

FAITH IN LLOYD GEORGE

[AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAB I N (Received ns. u a ) Ottawa. D Enthusiastic aoproval 1 g Mr. Lloyd George’s proposal t 1 1 I an Imperial War Conferenc The press hails Mi-. Ll 1 C ge as a statesman with the le t Imperial outlook, ana deela t t the Empire anxiously awaits h a inference at the present c

AUSTRALIA.

SERIOUS POSITION.

NOT HALF ENOUGH RECRUITS

[AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASS’N] (Received 28, 10 a.m.) Sydney, Dec. 27. The Recruiting Committee announced that the military' possessed less than half of the reinforcements required for January. NOTES FROM VARIOUS STATES

The storm damage in the Milthorpe district, N.S.W., is estimated at over £150,000. The harvest is ruined. /

The interstate shipping companies are continuing to eliminate return tickets and maintaining the 20 per cent, increase on fares enforced dur. ing the coal strike. (Received 28, 10'a.m.)

Reviewing the work of the Education Department, the Hon. A. G. F. James, N.iS.W. Minister for Education, said that chidren in isolated districts who find it impossible to reach school, should be taught by correspondence. Owing to the operation of the Licenses Reduction Board in Victoria, 139 hotels were closed in 1916, involving £81,158 compensation, which is to be paid by the surviving hotels.