MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[FEE PEESfi ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Sept. 30. Copper is £942 -to £95 3-8; electrolyspecter £4OJ to £4l^; tin. £26Bi to £2741; silver 4s 11 3-B<L SIR JAMES ALLEN. LONDON, Sept. 30 The Australian and New Zealand Press Association has interviewed Sii James Allen, who has just returned from the Brussels International Finan- • c ial Conference.. Sir James Allen stat- ' -ed there was difficulty at the conference to reach concrete decisions. Thi. trouble was owing to the. diversity o\. the opinions and the ideals, and the polyglot discussions by more than 1(K delegates. The trend of opinion, he said, favored the idea that each country should , fiscally and industrially re-establish it self, and that ho State, large or small, was entitled to any outside assistance until it balanced its revenues and its expenditure. Sir James Allen said he believed the results would affect New Zealand. The Dominion could best help Britain by increasing its exports to America. They could redress the adverse exchanges.

(RENOWN TO BE PAID OFF. LONDON, September 30. H-M.S. Renown will be paid off at the earliest possible moment after her arrival and will not be recommissioned. Sir Andrew Fisher and Sir T. Coghlan have fallen into line with the majority of the Agents-Genernl, who decided unanimously 'at a meeting to-day to request the Hon. Mr Amery to preside at a dinner to the Prince of Wales arid <emcouyage ino speeches and no guests outside the officials. BIRDWOOD’S praise. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30. After the luncheon General Bird wood addressed the Colonial Institute, Hutton presiding. Bo recalled his prognostication in 1904 that the incipient Australian army would prove ultimately one of the finest fighting forces of the Empire. Birdwood’s armies justified that prediction. The Australian and New Zealand forces had become civilisation’s buttress in the Pacific,