AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

LAND FOE SOLDIERS. QUEENSLAND OFFER. Brisbane, April 27. The Queensland Government has written to Sir Rider Haggard, who has come out to report on the conditions under which roldie'rs may be put on the land, offering 1,000,000 acres if the State can raise the money necessary to prepare it for the occupation of ex-service men from the United Kingdom. STRIKE OF CUTTERS. TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT. Melbourne, April 27. The strike of cutters at the Commonwealth Clothing Factory has! been temporarily settled. I

CONSCRIPTION FAVOURED.

Sydney, April 27. At the annual conference of the Australian Natives' Association the delegates adopted a motion in favour of conscription. A delegate said that the men who had not enlisted were ioafi-ip at the expense of the sweat of other men's brows.

FLOUR FOR THE TROOPS. NEW SOUTH WALES CONTRACT Sydney, April 27. The loading of the first ship for Britain under the Government Bchcmo for dealing with wheat has! commenced. Speaking at a gather-1 ing to celebrate the occasion Mr. Grahame, Honorary Minister, an-j pounced that the Government was entering into an important contract with the British Government to send flour to the front. He announced. that if the Legislative Council further blocked the Bill providing for : the erection, of elevators at Glebe '■ Island, the Government would go to the country on the proposal. - i