Australia

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1915, Page 5

Australia

GENERAL ITEMS. 'llobart, July 14. Cecil 'McVilly, winner of the 1913 Diamond Sculls at 'llenley, has enlisted. Jasmania is commencing a recruiting campaign.

Adelaide, July 14. 1 -°uth Australia is beginning- a recruiting campaign similar to that in A ictoriii.

Melbourne, July 14. Ihe Commonwealth has on oroer the full equipment for .111,0(10 men, exclusive of all units and reinforcement units completed or authorised. Loirn- before the winter the necessai'y arrangements will have been made to meet tin* needs of Australians in the field. Two Red .Cross commissioners have been appointed to proceed to Egypt to take up duties similar to those of the British commissioners.

Melbourne. July 14. .Mr. Jensen stated that, owing' to the J Imperial Government utilising a number of military transports in connection with food supplies, he anticipated it would 'be necessary to make further inroads on the inter-State fleet. At present the Commonwealth had the third largest shipping fleet in the world under its control, numbering' So vessels. Sydney, July 14. A business men's recruiting meeting i carried a resolution to reinstate in their former positions all employees able to take them on returning from the war. Mr. Ilolman emphasised the possibilities of female labor to fill the gaps made by recruiting. ifolbourne ,July 14. Mr. Pearce announced that when the troojis now embarking arrive, Australia will have 80,(100 at tile front. Arrangements were being completed to enable recruits rejected on the "round of medical unfitness which could be remedied by an operation to obtain attendance preparatory to a second enlistment.

ENEMY-MADE CIOODS. Received July 14, t> ji.m. Sydney, July 14. The Chamber of Commerce has arranged for an exhibition of enemy-made goods, with the object of striking "a vital blow at the enemy's trade by enabling tlie pubfic to identify good's. The Farmers' Conference resolved, in view of the need for men at the front, to urge the, authorities to reduce sport and amusement. WAT! CENSUS BILL. Received July 15, 1.20 a.m. Melbourne, July I' 4. In the House, a War Census Bill was introduced, providing for the registration of all males from seventeen to sixty years of age, and for obtaining particulars of the wealth of the population generally.

WAR LOAN. Melbourne, July 14. In the House, Mr. Fisher announced that the Government had decided to float a twenty millions war loan, to be issued at par 4i per centum, with a minimum of ten pounds for bonds of one hundred pounds inscribed stock. A proclamation prohibits the export of gold specie and bullion.