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) (Eeceivcd April 20, 8.35 a.m. SYDNEfY, April 20. .It- is und«]*lood the shortage of tonnage will be, somewhat relieved by a number of Russian ships coming from Vladivostok to load wheat for Europe. MELBOURNE . April 30. Joseph Risley Settle has been appointed director of naval works at a salary. of £1500. .Mr Pearce considers Australia capable of supplying another new division for the front,-' besides keeping up her Teinforcetnentsi He believed the spring campaign- -'would' be a. 'crucial point. In that case a new division planted m the right place at the right time would mean a great thing. An important gathering of primary producers has formed a comprehensive: union for safeguarding and developing" their interests.At Moama Charles Wilkes a wellknown res.ident, was fined £5100 for making statements likely to prejudice recruiting. Speaking fat the Agricultural Society's luncheon' Mr Pearce said: ?t Gallipoli was not a failure. If Turkey had the troops she had lost m tho campaign we would not have read of the Russian success at Trebizond," " ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3
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