MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[ iCy Electric Telegraph —Copyright.; NEED FOR FOOD CONTROL. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON February 23. Mr Roberts, the Food Controller, 1 prior to relinquishing his duties, submitted to Cabinet a memorandum strongly urging the continuance of the functions, with increased powers. The Daily Chronicle states Mr Lloyd George is favourably impressed and con. siders the Ministry should control other essential commodities like wool, leather and cotton with a price-fixing power.

A NEAV FIGURE IN POLITICS. SPEAKS HIS MIND. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) OTTAAVA, Feb. 19. Mr Arthur Meighen, Minister of Interior, who is generally regarded as the probable successor to Borden in the Premiership, in a speech referring to the United States Senate’s claim that America was not bound by the decisions of the League of Nations, Mr Meighen declared that the membership of the League, without being bound by its decisions, was a mere sham. Consequently the Senate’s proposed reservations would mean that either Canada or the United States would have to step from the League. The ' Canadian Government has taken the unequivocal and determined stand that if Canadian representation was essential and her right as a nation stood, it was not to.be abrogated. Canada demanded and insisted on her rights and could recognise no League where Canada’s vote and representations were not conceded.

AVOMEN’S RIGHTS. (Received this day at. 10.1 A a.m.) . LONDON, Feb. 22. The report of tlie Committee dealing with the re-organisation of the Civil Service recommends that women should be given a status of authority equal to men, with equal minimum pay and equal increments up to a certain point. A well marked avenue of promotion should be opened up, and the universal monopoly of administrative posts disappearing in the British industries. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Feb. 20. Mount Lyell buyers, 25s 9d; sellers 26s 9d. AVaihi 46s 3d and 38s 6d. •There was a poor selection of merinos, but a brisker sale of eross-brods. All prices are unchanged. A PROUD BOLSHEAHK. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) ' AY ASH IN GTO X, February 19. M'r Maartens testified before the Senate Committee. He said: “I am glad I am a Bolshevik and would be very glad to see America become 80.sheviki but deny I am working to overthrow the United States Government.

CANADA’S LEAGUE STATUS. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) OTTAWA, February 19. In a speech at .Winnipeg, the Minister of the Interior (Air Meizan) said he regretted that the United States was challenging the Canadian status a,s a nation. The position that England controls Canada is linteiiible, since the United States would dominate Havti, Sa-n Domingo, and other nations who are permitted to vote in the League. CANADA’S MINERALS. (Received This Day at L 5. p.m.l OTTAAVA, February 19. Canada’s mineral output during 1919 was valued at $167,000,000, $44,000,000 less than in 1918.