IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 11 August 1914, Page 5

IN THE COMMONWEALTH.

MEASURES AND PROPOSALS

rp, SYDNEY, Auo- 10 toms requirements l~ + Th® trustees of "Elizabeth and Wai German residents are reouirerl i^ ' register their names and keen it 'iS W °f \heir te the| riotfw^uncP' Ol)ened a^at" c o . MELBOURNE, Aug. 10. Senator Millen states that the* Defence Department has been complete^ J.v inundated with applications ™ofoL the expeditionary force. H e has re Sirti,-03^ that Urd KiSen re e r ' fOT^fl ,? va Ci° n7 ey SDecial thanks tor the splendid help oromised. Ladv_ Jerrmson proposes to form an &ot raw ? ranch, of the British Red tJroas Society, and a-peals to loyal comm-unities to organise collecting parties Lady Strickland and the wives wt Governors of the other States c^uncif rG ° SerVG °n the central " / SYDNEY, Aug. 10. Anyone under nineteen years is ineligible for the expeditionary force. Mr Millen, Minister of Defence notihes that the Government- has decidecl to organise a small naval and ! military force to serve within or without Australia. The force will be quite distinct from that organising for service m Britain. Mr Cook, the Premier, has issued a statement that the fact that the country was committed to projects involving heavy cost demanded that there shall be ro stoppage in developing the energies of the peonle. Trade must continue as usual. Efforts should bo made to increase rather than curtail national business. After deprecating the fact of importers countermanding orders, he say s there is no justification tor the fear of Britain's mastery of the sea bein^ endangered. The "seaway at present was ouite open. The census rel<urns*for 1911 showed that there were 32..900 Germans in the Commonwealth.

The butter merchants have decided not to increase prices. The Stock Exchange has closed for another week, when the position will be reconsidered.

Wheat is steady; 4 S 2d is asked and 4s offered.

Coal is declared conditional contraband. The authorities must he satisiied that shipments are unlikely to he myerted for the use of the enemy, or hemp; taken to a place where they "are likely to be taken by an enemy.