AUSTRALIA.
NO PROFITEERING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. MELBOURNE, Feb. 23. A regulation has been issued which prohibits an agreement among traders to increase the prices of supplies. TASMANIAN SOLDIERS AND LIQUOR. HOBAUT, Feb. 23. At the sitting of the Senate Committee inquiring into the sale of intoxicants to soldiers, the State Commandant said that of the whole of the men who- had enlisted . in Tasmania only 1191 failed to go to the front. Drink had not to any extent interfered with the efficiency of the troops. He favoured a web canteen for the sale of drink of reduced strength and' the introduction of an Anti-shouting Acta
{The cable news in this issuo accredited to "The Times" has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of the "The Times."]
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16478, 25 February 1918, Page 9
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137AUSTRALIA. Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16478, 25 February 1918, Page 9
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