AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 28 May 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

(Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, May 27. The Premiers' Conference decided to appoint a committee rep —tentative of the Federal and State Governments, in conjunction with experts, to deal with wheat storage and the shipping freight shortage question. Mr Hughes estimates the next harvest will produce at least six million tons of exportable surplus wheat. The Federal Cabinet has decided to repeal the Daylight Saving Bill when thp House meets in July. The Government oil expert who has returned from Paiyna reports favnrabiv on the establishment of a valuable oil industry. The fields cover two thousand miles. Seven bores are already down, and have mostly struck oil of the highest quality, "and prospects generally are good. SYDNEY. May 26. At the Children's Welfare Conference resolutions were adopted in favor of establishing day nurseries in pooulo"« suburbs, of an anti-shouting Bill with the view of decreasing the evils rl'ie to drunkenness affecting child i life, the formation of an association so ps to make permanent the decisions of the conference. The Commonwealth Statistician, in a naner dealing with I the birth rate, said it was impossible j for the world's population to increase for any appreciable length of time at I the present rate without exhausting • the food supply. If every cultivable acre on the world's surface was cultivated and the increase of the world's population only 1 per cent per annum. | and the present population" only 1500 : inili;ons, complete exhaustion of the food suplv would be reached in 450 voars. The Superintendent of the '; State Children's Department, dealing with illegitimacy, said that if many babies were to survive the critical ; pp'-'ods of infancy they must be well \ paid for by the State, payment to be- . gin some defined time before birth. i ,gss