NEW ZEALAND'S CONTRIBUTION OF MEN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND'S CONTRIBUTION OF MEN.

GERMAN WOLFRAM MINES IN

INDIA

TAKEN OVER BY THE GOVERN-

MENT.

(Received Jan. 26, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Jan. 25

Mr. Bonar Law was cheered in the House of Commons when lie announced that New Zealand by the end of June would have raised 60,000 men.

Replying to a question, Mr. C. Roberts, Under-Secretary for India, said the Indian Government had taken statutory powers to work Germanowned wolfram mines in India, and to .prohibit export except to th<> Uriited Kingdom. ,

Tho House of Lords passed thp third reading of fcho Parliament Registration Bill.