AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14007, 11 March 1920, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN CABLES.

,-< - ■ j-— —r""." / - 'M ■ '.<£ ~ (Per Preaa Association.) - 'g (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Asan.) ' H Received March 11, at 10.80 a.m. '"d MELBOURNE, March U. if In the House of Representatives 1 speaking in Oomiiwtitee ot Supply, jj£ f k M'jvtc stated thau Iteforet long it wouUJ A ho necessarj to provide' more l ofm money, either here .or a brand, for be.." lilted-war expeneiw. repatriation, ftlH j shipbuilding-. I Mr McAVilliams moved, an amend- > : meiib that the amount ot Supply | )f , '* i educed bj half, stating- that tho r«i<.oir was to bring about » return to p ar . liaiuentars control of the public purse. Sir .lo#'cph v ,Cook announced that iht» Government.' m view of onbh» delays ■> was drawing attention to tlu> necssl sit\ of the creation ot a. wireless. s<> r . vice' "' Before the Northern Ternton Coin. mission Private Remberg -said ho ', ■ imprisoned in Fanny Ba\ gaol loi -i\. , teen montlis for debt without am court < proceedings, being arrested while on the ' way to enlist. He further said that when th? recruiting campaign Ktaitefl '< Dr Gilruth went to the* Defence Dr. " partment nnd bad it /stopped Whilp m g.iol he once refused to enter-a n.]) " and the warder drew a revolvei n\\i A ordered the guard to shoot the priso/'J: nor. Concluding, witness stated that i\\\ % other prisoners in gaol for- debt vterq \ mea who tried to enlist. f ',! Tho fonner manager of the Terminm \ Hotel, Darwin, gave evidence that hjj J saw a drunken policeman with a -p. ' volver make a number of_people stanj 4 in line" against a wall. No action vjd 1 taken b> the authorities. , Bailed —Mamari, for New Zealand NEWCASTLE, March U. "' Sailed —Waikawa, for '■>. Kai'toa, tot' Lyttelton. " (\>* v SYDNEY, March ]]. Tho first cose it, sot down under tli£v Retainicd Soldiers and Sailors Employ.-* meat Act. Captain Cohen is proreei£ ing against the Millions Club foi rcjj ecirtlv appointing Frank Edwards l,ii ft -s secretarv to Mr Holman. swretnn t(J the Club. Edwards not. hcing a letuinpdl soldier 4