LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1919, Page 3

LATE NEWS.

£2,000 JEWEL THEFT. WOMAN’S ENCOUNTER WITH HOTEL ROBBER. LONDON, Aug. 28. Returning to her room in a Qublin hotel, after an absence of about two minutes, Mrs Crawshay, the wife of Major Crawshay, Royal Welsh Fusiliers found a strange man there. He was carrying a small bag, and said he was trying to find his) way out of the hotel, but had mistaken the door.

After he had gone, Mrs Crawshay missed her jewels, worth £2,000, which had been placed on the dressing table. She and her maid followed the man downstairs, shouting, but he escaped. The stolen jewellery included a necklace of 147 large and 138 small pearls, a regimental diamond brooch, and some rings. Major and Mrs Crawshay were visiting Dublin for the Horse Show. BRITISH TOYS. Metal toy manufacturers, at a London meeting yesterday, unanimously agreed that unless some protection can he given to them they will have to close down their factories. It was pointed out that British manufacturers have had no opportunity of' putting down the necessary plant or of educating labour for toy-making to enable them to compete with German toys because they have Ween engaged on essential war work. Manufacturers say it will take 10 years to equip their factories 1 and bring them as up-to-date as those in Germany.

Mr Walter Scoles, chairman of the Incorporated Association of British Toy Manufacturers, and Wholesalers, Ltd., writes:

“Meetings of our manufatcurers are now-being held in all our branches, and there isi a movement to withdraw in a body from all exhibition or participation in the next British Industries Fair. Factories started with the greatest hopes are ararnging to close down through the hopeless position in which they are placed. “From Monday next begins the inflow, in place of our own goods, of the products of the women who starved and ill-treated our noble British prisoner lads, and of the wicked Hun who deliberately killed and tortured our soldier boys in their fever camps and loathsome hospitals.” ’