MOTHER COUNTRY

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17230, 26 July 1916, Page 7

MOTHER COUNTRY

THE CREDIT VOTE.

WHAT THE WAR COSTS

PRIME MLTTSTER'S STATEMENT.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 25, S.lO p.m.) LONDON, July 24. In the House of Commons, Mr Asuuith moved the credit vote foV 'l-i w.000,000. ■■' The expenditure from Ami! 1 to July 22- he°said. IA been

i;559.O0O,0O0 and the Government had £41,000,000 on hand. The cost ww divided as follows: • ->•' '£ i l i Navy, Army and munitions ■ . ... • 379,000,000 Loans to Allies . . . 157,000,00(3 Food, supplies and railways . . . • 23,000,0 m ■- Total • • ■• £559,000,00! The average daily expenditure forth* war was £4.950,000. He hoped that the Army and Navy expenditure Would not in the near future exceed the present level. On the basis of £5,000,000 daily] the present vote would last to the end of October.

SUPPLY OF GUNS.

WHAT BRITAIN IS DOING

MORE HEAVY ARTILLERY . X WANTED. ■•->?

(Received July 25, 8.10 p.m.) : LONDON, July 24.;

Mr Lloyd George, replying to Oolon« Churchill, said that steel helmets werf being manufactured at a prcdigiouj rate, and had'already saved many, thou? sands of lives. Britain was turning out in a single month more guns than th« whole British Army had possessed M the beginning of the war. The suocea with which the British manufacture! had risen to the problem of the big gut was a triumph for engineering. a* wanted still considerably more guns and shells. f¥<

ENEMY PROPERTY.

VESTED IN PUBLIC TRUSTEE. LONDON, July 24. In the House of Commons Mr Lewii Harcourt stated that the value oi enemy property vested in the I Publi( Trustee was four and a half million* sterling, and that vested in the Board of Trade two millions. ■"'

WAR CHARITIES.

BILL TO EFFECT CONTROL. %

LONDON, July 24. In the House of Commons the Horn Secretary anndunced a Bill to contro war charities.'* \

POST-WAR PROBLEMS.

THE DOMINIONS' PART.

STATEMENT BY MR ASQUITH.

Hauler's Telegrams.

LONDON, July 24

In the House of Commons, in reply to a series of questions regarding the representation of the dominions on tho committee considering the industrial and commercial policy after the war, Mr Asquith read a telegram sent by Mr Bonar Law to. the dominions in

May stating that the Government desired as soon as practicable to convene an Imperial Conference to consider the commercial policy to be adopted after the war, and intimating its intention prior to tho conference to form a committee in England to discover* whether an agreement among the British. parties on the fiscal question was possible under the changed conditions caused by the war. The dominions were assured that the appointment of this committee, whatever the results, would not unduly delay the holding of the Imperial Conference or interfere wit| the free discussion of problems wrtt the oversea representatives. The do minion Governments concurred and ta( committee accordingly was. appointed,; . Mt D. Mac Master asked whetherj in view of the faot that the .principle, of the representatives of the dominion! was recognised at the Paris confer ence, was it not possible in working out the details of the scheme that the dominions should be.represented? $ Mr Asquith said Mr Hughes went U the Paris conference to represent tb/ Empire, not any particular dominion. .

COMMISSIONS BILL.

INTRODUCED BY PREMIER. $

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ; LONDON, July Ssg Mr Asquith introduced the Mesopo taniia and Dardanelles Commissions Bil to give discretionary powers to sit u camera or otherwise.

THE DARDANELLES. MR MASSEY TO REPRESENT NEfl ZEALAND: (Received Jny 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July If is expected that the opening flf the Dardanelles inquiry will be postponed sufficiently to permit the amr»i of the Australasian delegates. It 11 considered that the,inquiry. otherwiM will be unsatisfactory to the dominiow i'lom the viewpoint that it will poesiblj not deal with the details of the oper* tions. Mr Pearce and Sir Massey vrtl represent Australia and New Zealand...

NO NEWS RECEIVED.

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT

NOT INFORMED.

[From Our Correspondent.]

WELLINGTON, July 25. | In the House this afternoon Mr o\«f asked the Prime Minister if any con*munication had been received from the Home authorities regarding New Zealand's representation on the proposed inquiry into the GallipoU operations. Mr'Massev replied: No. The Net* Zealand Government has received na communication from the Imperial au< thorities regarding the proposed Uiwr danelles commission. '■

ROCER CASEMENT.

NO LEAVE TO APPEAL.

The High Commissioner reports 1

LONDON, July 24.. The Attorney-General hrs refused Roger Casement leave to appeal t* the House of Lords. ~v ,

PARLIAMENTARY VISIT.

INSPECT CLYDE WORKS. Australia?, trxi XZ. Cable Association (Received July 25, 6.30 pirn.) ■■] | LONDON, July 2l»: Overseas parliamentarians .visited Glasgow., The Loid Provost welcdnlecl them. They visited the Clyde shipyard;! and munition factories, members of thf corporation and of the Clyde ".Tturt affi complying, them. : ■', _ L ; , >;.; •- ■■■''..;■

SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE.

VISITING THE WOUNDED. (Received July 25, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 24. Sir Thomas Mackenzie visited New \ Zealand wounded in hospitals in the I northern counties, and visited some ot the biggest munition works. He conferred with wool spinners, manufacturers and brokers. He attended a conresulting in £IOOO fiSbS obtained for St Dunstan's Hospital for the Blind.