AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144712, 22 June 1915, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SHORTENING POLICE - HOURS. BY BEECIEKJ. tEJSCEim,—CaPYEKITr, (Received June- 22, R=amQ " SYDNEY, June 22, Mr. Black has decided that the.police shall work in eight-hour shifts. EXPORT OF FROZEN MEAT, (Received Jane 22, 11A am.) MELBOURNE, June 22. Mr. Justice, Hood has been appointed to act as a Royal Commission to inquire into the export of Victorian frozen meat. t AUSTRALIA’S FORESTS VANTSHING. (Received June 22, 11.5 am.) BRISBANE, June 22. Replying to a deputation of timber getters Mr. Hunter stated that at the present x-ato of denudation the entire timber resources would bo exhausted in twenty years, unless something is-done to conserve tho forests. IMPORTATION OP HORSES. (Received June 22, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jane 22. The Federal authorities have increased the stringency of the regulations on the importation of New Zealand horses. The certificate of a Government veterinary must_ accompany , the horso stating that to his knowledge the animal has not been within a country whence the importation of horses into Australia is forbidden under the Quarantine Act within the' three pro. ceding years.