FARM LABOUR IN CANADA AUSTRALIA

Nelson Evening Mail, 8 March 1916, Page 5

FARM LABOUR IN CANADA

AUSTRALIA

15.000 STUDENT# TO BE SET FREE I/ON!I>ON, March 6. In otrder to increase Ithe supply of farm labour, the Government of Ontario has agreed to allow 15,000 students at high schools and colleges 'to work on farms from May'to October without forfeiting their status.

OERM AN - BORN ELECTORS TO BE DISFRANCHISED. . SYDNEY, March 7, The Cabinet has decided' to disfranchise all German-bora eleobors' for the duration of the war. WHEAT CROP. (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Minister of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop at 60,000,G0G bushels. DEMAND FOR STEAMERS. 1 (Rec. 9.30 a.m.') MELBOURNE, This Day. At the half-yearly meeting of the Mel- 1 bourn e Steamship Company, It was stat- j ed that one> of the steamers could' be i sold to oversea buj-ers -at a profit equal j to that earned by the Company's fleets :n i six months. I

THE PRICE OF BREAD. (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) Mr Hall, Minister in chaTge of the ■New Sonith Wales bread scheme, is surprised that -the' Commonwealth is fixing the niMre of bread. He i«. confident that no business will make 8 per cent, per year, .selling at the proclaimed price.

SCOTLAND'S' SPLENDID RESPONSE. / —— (Re. 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This D'ay. Colonel Burns, welcomed by the Highland Society;, sajd that if the' whole Empire responded the same as Scotland, an army of 5,000,000 would be the result.