MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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CHEESE PRICES. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, September ±4. Cheese importers cabled on 7th. August, have contracted for the purchase of fifteen hundred tons of Queensland cheese at thirteen pence per pound f.o.b. They are now willing to increase the price by id, as the Government price o\>butter has been increased. It is understood that importers are willing to take cheese from other iStates of the same price. 4

AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON, September 14. i Doctor St. Hamer, Germany’s representative in Britain lias I icon appointed Ambassador. CONGRESS DELEGATE'S. OTTAWA, September 14. Overseas delegates to the Imperial Congress of the Chambers of Commerce opening at Toronto to-night are arriving by each incoming steamer. One hundred landed at Quebec yesterday. After the session the delegates will visit various sections of the country.

A JAPANESE CENSUS. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 13. Japan’s first census will be taken on st October.

LECTURES FOR CHINA. (Received this day. at 9.30 a.m.) PEKIN, Sept. 13. . Government have approved of a proposal by the Minister of Education to invite foreign educationists to lecture throughout China.

v BRITISH MINERS? LONDON, Sept. 13. A trustee, of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association declares 'that it is illogical for the Miners’ Federation to ask for increased wages and for the reduction in the price of householders’ coal. He said he was convinced the miners would not strike in support of their demand to reduce household coal by 14s a ton. The Derbyshire miners, however, are among those least favourable to the miners’ demands from the start.

It is alleged that tile miners generally do not attach serious importance to the demand for the reduction of 14s 2d on the price of domestic coal. However, the Executive of the Miner? Federation have refused to separate the two demands, for better wages ancl a reduction on domestic coal.

, WOMEN IMMIGRANTS. '• LONDON, Sept. 14. Delegates who recently returned from New Zealand have reported to the Colonial Olfice regarding women’s emigration there. They say there are special openings for educated women in New eZaland willing to take up domestic work. Public institutions also demand teachers. Women workers are wanted in clothing factories. Unless they are skilled milkers, however, women should not go there with a. view to taking up work on the land. Women with a capital of oypr tjireo hundred pounds may be encouraged to go. for the purposejif dairying pnd bee and poultry keeping. These should work in New Zealand af, least a ye ay before investing their money, r

The “Daily Chronicle” commenting' on the report, says:—“lt is clear that no women emigrant can hope for success unless she is fully prepared to become a New Zealander.

AMERICA AND JAPAN, ' TQKIO, September. 13. It is announced that following on the visit of American Congressmen re Japan, and despite the. 'Californian hostility to Japanese, as well as the resentment ip Japan, Japanese politicians intend visiting America in order to improve the Japanese-Amerioan relations. Several members of the Japanese Diet are arranging ho visit the United States next summer.