ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 3

ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA.

(Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, May 17. There was an excellent response to to-day's recruiting rally. The returns at present are not available, but it is believed that the number is the biggest since the early .part of thts war. MELBOURNE, May 17; In the House of Representatives, Mr. Watt, m, moving the second: reading of the new War Loan Bill, under which it is proposed to raise £80,000,000, stated that we had already raised m Australia £149,325,508, and had raised m Britain £46,500,000. our total indebtedness being £196,825,058. (Received May 18, 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 18. The House of Representatives read a first time a oiew War Loan Bill, which Mi*. ' Watt) stated would be the last loan free of income tax to be raised. The Gover-nment was preparing a basis for a new system for the duration of , tho war. • • Mr. Tudor has sent Mr. Watt a letter stating .that the. Labor Party Is desirous of doing everything; necessary for tho proper conduct of the, war, and asking, for a>n unoenso'red press, the removal of regulations limiting sport, and the removal iof rules prejudically affecting the status of industrial organisations. ;