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D.I.C. • ■ ; EMPIRE GOODS ♦ — POLICY OF PREFERENCE LONDON COUNTY- COUNCIL] The policy of the London. CountyCouncil in giving preference to Empire, products was challenged by the Labour Party at a meeting of the Council. The General Purposes Committee sub-i mitted-a. report expressing the opinion' that no alteration of the preferential policy should be made. -The Import Duties Act had been in force less than! nine months. Until longer experience had been, gained of the effect of the protection thus afforded there could bs no justification for making a change in the Council's policy. Mr." Morrison moved that the report be not received/ .He said that tho Labour Party had not been unreasonable in its opposition to the Council's policy. It was prepared at one time to agree to giving the home manufacturer some sort of preference -within, strict limits. But, now- that the State* had undertaken the liability of protecting British trade, it was inappropriate that the Council should supplement, that protection. The policy of Imperial preference "was' encouraging; manufacturers to be inefficient and ti» charge excessive prices. • Mr. David Arlptt seconded, and gava instances of the incidence of preference in certain trades. It was cheaper, ho said, to ship some goods to a' neart>V| country and then re-ship them back to; England. The reason was that the price charged to the foreigner was considerably lower than that made to thtf British. Eings were in operation. TJNFAIK FOREIGN COMPETITION. Sir William Bay replied that manufacturers and" workpeople in England to-day had for years been at the mercy, of unfair foreign competition. When, that unfair competition ceased there would be every justification for thepolicy Mr. Morrison and Mr. Arlott' had put forward. British industry, should be given a chance of establishing itself before the advantage by preference was taken away. Mr. Emil Davies submitted that iv these days "Empire" did not payIt paid so long as the populations of the Empire could be exploited. Now the boot was on the other foot and the populations of. the Empire were exploiting the Mother Country; Was the chairman o£ the General Purposes Committee aware that Canada, to prevent "unfair " competition/ from England owing to the abandonment of the gold standard, had put a surcharge on ttw value of all goods imported from. Britain? What happened? The British; firm, with millions of money invested in. Canada, had to close down; and Americans bought it at a very low figure. Americans were securing the economic control of Canada, .and tho Council, by its preferential policy* wa» helping in that. ' ... 0 On a division the report. was wceived. . ■ " "*.... JUPITER'S PULL * ——♦ --: ON LEONID SWARM ' WHAT HAPPENED Again the Leonid meteors disappointed astronomers who watched for them, expecting a return of the brilliant shower of shooting stars of November, 1566. A careful watch, in a beautifully dear sky, at two observatories near Philadelphia, revealed a very sparse display, Jar inferior to that of the previous year (writes James Stokely in the "New York Times.'? In the opinion of Dr. Charles P. Olivier, director of the Flower Observatory of the University of Pennsylvania, and president of the Meteor Commission of the International' Astronomical Union, the 1899' experience is s rePeate<i. After fine showers ia 1833, when the. entire sky was covered with shooting stars, and in 1866, a repetition was confidently expected ia 1099. ■ The warning of two English astronomers that the planet Jupiter had, by, its great gravitational attraction, pulled aside the meteor swarm which should have reached the earth in that year went unheeded. The previous year had brought fbrtli a good shower, but in 1899 they failed miserably. Again in 1900 the shower' T^as a failure, but in 1901 it was fairly good. With 1931 and 1930 both having provided a shower better, than for years previously, the present situation, seems closely parallel. Drl Olivier is afraid that 1933 will be like 1900, but that in 1934 we may get into the tail end of the swarm. The reason for this, he explained, might be that the first part of the meteor swarm got past Jupiter without being seriously perturbed, and it was this part that reached us in IS9S and in 1931. The centre of the cluster was affected most, as Jupiter passed closest to it. But when, the end of the swarm came along the planet had moved sufficiently, far away to enable the meteors to continue in their old orbit. It had been,hoped that since the be-* ginning of the century Jupiter had rei paired its previous damage by pulling the swarm, back into line, but events seem to indicate that this 13 not thei case. Dr. Olivier's observations, and those of his associates at the Flower Observatory, show that the meteors after midnight were seen at the rate of about thirteen an hour. Because of tho proximity of a- brilliant moon, a few. days past full, tho fainter ones were hidden, and he estimates that had the night been dark he would have sees about thirty .per hour. . ' ... -Several of those seen were brighter than a first magnitude star, and one left a trail behind it which. _ remained. visible for about 30 seconds. Another very brilliant one, blue in colour and brighter than Venus, descended- dir-. ectly downward from Leo- to the horizon. Doctors in Berlin, may now carry an extra lamp on their cars. This shows 3 red cross on a green background, acd is for use only on occasions of urgency, when the policemen will get them through; traffic as. quickly as possible/