GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

-, SYDNEY, Aug. 1. Mr Greenwood heads the list of winning owners during the season just closed with £10,333. —Press Assn. MELBOURNE, Aug. 1. The Meat Industry Employees' Union has pledged itself, if supplies are: withheld, to carry on the industry, provided the Government commandeers the stock.—Press Association. SYDNEY, Aug. 1. The Federal Government has issued regulations prohibiting the use. of the German language in public places.— Press Association. Owing to the dispute in the Aber Main colliery over the interpretation of the award a thousand men are. idle. —Press Association. There are great preparations for the A.I.F. Memorial Day to-morrow to collect funds to protect the interests of returned soldiers and their dependents and to erect a memorial building and house organisation. Senator Pearce (Federal Defence Minister), speaking at the Million' Club, said the Australian troops in the field numbered 120,000. The total embarked was 121,000, returned 70,160*. in camp at the end of June 7550, discharged 53,138. Three battalions had temporarily been withdrawn owing to lack of reinforcements, and others were likely. Australia had done what no j other Dominion had done, for she had ! sent properly-equipped flying squadrons to the front.—Press Assn. BRISBANE, Aug. 1. A meeting of women carried & motion in favor of the six o'clock closing of hotels. The women then proceeded to Parliament House, invaded the gallery, and, after interrupting the business for half an hour, vu rei'e removed by the police.—Press Association.