BRITAIN'S PART.

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BRITAIN'S PART.

NATIONAL SERVICE, CAMPAIGN A COMPLETE FAILURE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, July 20. It is GviVlcnt that National Service / has been a complete l failure, ami the campaign will soon close. It lias been a great expense, but its results are nig- • ligible. The functions'relating to the control ami substitution of labour will • . be transferred to labour exchanges. 1 ' - SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' PAY. TRADES UNIONS AND PARLIAMENTARIAN CONTINENCE. , (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) S LONDON, July 20. lie Federation of Trades Unions is ting members of both Houses of Parliament .to confer with the Trades Unions at tlie House of Commons on August .Ist, to- 1 consider soldiers' and sailors' pay. It states that the price ■ of •men ',s needs is enormously increasing,' and where British battalions are brigaded alongside colonials the British curie the parsimony which gives 'him one-sixth of the pay of the Australians and New Zcalanders. It was not decent for stay-at-homes to talk patriotism while this scandal continued. DOCTORS AND CONSCRIPTION. REFERENDUM OF PROFESSION. (Australian and N.Z.Cablo Association) SYDNEY, duly 21. The .British' Medical Association's referendum >ou the conscription of docwiled for May 2!) th resulted in a iii/favour of (561. being ten .'short of the required 'majority. ■ • , THE NEW FOOD CONTROLLER. EUORfS fO REDUCE COS'k.OF nmo ' ! ' . • (Australian and Renter), , ! |v : J!.ei'pi.v(}(| .riijy 22,- ij.i) p.m.lu v'2l. 4' ; ;. The' Press states that /the! Controller ami ounces that '■ ili'sl

maximum prices of live cattle for Army consumption will be: September, 7-ls per ewt.; October, 725; November and December, 675; January, (ills. Maximum prices will be fixed corresponding with steps taken to control butchers' profits. The price of flour will be standardised to enable bread to be sold at, ninepenec the quartern loaf. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association) Received July 22, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 20. Mr Kennedy Jones, Director of.Food Economy, lias resigned, deceived July 22. 5,5 p.m. LONDON, July 21. Mr Kennedy Jones explains that he resigned because a special food economy campaign was not so necessary now that the harvest was INADEQUATE FOOD'SUPPLY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Received' July 22, 5.5 p.m. VANCOUVER, July 21. A message from London says that Mr Lloyd George stated that there is adequate food in Great. Britain for IDI7-.IS, and that starvation was impossible. NEW DIRECTOR OF" LABOUR. (Australian and N.Z.Cnblc'Associationj Received July 22, 5,5 p.m. '■■/'■' LONDON, ,Tuly ; 21, Sir Thomas Mtturo, county clerk for Lanarkshire, undertakes the- Chief Directorship of Labour in the Department of the Ministry of''Munitions.' His duties will include the establish-, ment of local committees of'employers and employees in order to ensure the prompt settlement of disputes. .