INCREASE IN USE OF HORSES. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

INCREASE IN USE OF HORSES.

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

TIDE TURNS IN LONDON. (bt cable -press association— coryiught.) (Sydney "Sun" Service.) (Received October 2Sth, 5.20 p.m.) . LONDON, October 27. ' The National Horse Association claims that the tide has turned in favour of the horse, and that more are now working in London than in 1913. The slump in horses after the war was fortuitous, due to the heavy unloading of cheap surplus army motor-lorries. Many firms would employ horses, hut young drivers complained that they would lose caste compared with motordrivers.

The Association is issuing posters and window cards championing the horse.

AUSTRALIAN REPORT. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION'— COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) CANBERRA, October 28. The report of the Australian delegation to the International Economic Conference, held at Geneva last May, has been presented in the House of Representatives, and deals with the economic conditions of the countries represented at the conference. It expresses the opinion that of the European countries only France, Italy, and Sweden appeared to have retained or increased their production, while Germany had not maintained a favourable balance and production in the United Kingdom had been generally lower.

The report states the war reinforced the continuous tendency for raw material to b worked up in the country of production, instead of its being scut to Europe for manufacture. Advances in technique, resulting in the increased use of hydro-electric power aud petroleum, had also caused a reduction in the demand for coal.

Increased tariffs outside Europe, frequent alterations to tariff schedules, unstable currency conditions and frontier changes are also advanced as reasons for the present unsettled conditions of commerce and industry. The chief trouble now was neither any material shortage in natural resources, nor human inadequacy to exploit them, but hindrances of the free flow of labour, capital, and goods. The removal of these obstacles required international action.