AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 18 May 1922, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

N.S.W. SCHEME. COMPULSORY SUB-DIVISIbN. Press Assn. —By Tel. —Copyright. SYDNEY, May 16. Under the new Government’s Lands and Settlement Development scheme owners of private estates capable of providing increased settlement are asked voluntarily to submit to the proposals for sub-division and closer settlement. In the event of the Government failing to receive a satisfactory response compulsory action is contemplated. ABEMAMA OVERDUE. BOUND FOR BLUFF. SYDNEY, May 17. The schooner Abemama. on her way z to Grafton to lift cargo for the Bluff, is a week overdue. MANDATED TERRITORIES. MELBOURNE, May 16. Ordinances have been approved empowering the Governor-General to sell land in fees simple in the mandated territories, previously obtainable only on lease. Provision is also made for rights to search for gold, silver and other materials, but not shale, petroleum, or mineral oils, which are exclusively reserved for the Government. A timbei- ordinance provides for issuing licenses for an area of 5000 acres for 15 years, reserving to the Crown the absolute right to acquire interests on lands owned by natives. CABINET MEETS. SYDNEY, May 16. The Cabinet considered the question of unemployment, and appointed a sub-committee to inquire into the whole matter. 4 , BASIC WAGE. Cabinet also discussed rhe gazettal of the new basic wage. The Premier stated that he had encountered certain legal difficulties. Cabinet would further consider the matter on Wednesday. | CLERGYMAN AND WAR. j IMPASSIONED ADDRESS. SYDNEY, May 17. In the course of an impassioned address on international relationships at the final session of the Congretational Union, the Rev. Parkin, said: “Let us proclaim war for what it is in all its stinking and starving reality. Until men refuse to fight, Anzae speeches are mostly a glorification of the undoubted courage and the wonderful spirit of our soldiers. We ought, at least in the pulpit, picture the stinking mad thing called war.”