MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[“reuter’s” telegram.] I nationalisation. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 0. } The Pall Mall Gazette on “Nation- , alisation, an object lesson from Ausj tralia,” says, “Queensland dabbles in every public industry which seemed to promise revenue. With a eonsequj ence, taxation has bzeen raised to an unheard of height and the Treasury is e left in a direct state of emptiness. >,a- ---' tionnlisation as applied to Queen 'land j turned gold into Head. Undertakings yielding a profit in private hands, have become synonymous with deficit when ’ exploited by the public authoritv. Commenting on Mr Theodore’s statement that Government would apc propriate dividends due in the State to outside investors, the Gazette says Mr Theodore is reduced to the naked methods of a highwayman. j PASSENGERS SAILING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 7. The Malieno to-day takes forty passengers who will join the Maramn at 1 Wellington. They are compelled to ’ make the passage via Auckland ow'ng • j to the cutting out of the Moana. r- A NEW MAGAZINE. Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) LONDON, Oct. 6. Te first issue of the monthly maga- ’ zine entitled “Lloyd George, Liberal Magazine”‘contains an interview with Hon Lloyd George in which he defends the coalition. The only other alternative to the coalition when the armistice was signed, was a reversion to (he old party strife, which would have made it impossible to pass many effective measures as the coalition had done. Take Home Rule for instance. The position would have been worse than it is now if they had reverted to the old Liberal Government and reintroduced Home Rule. The Unionists would have resisted with tlieir full power, and their old hostility, and we would have been further from settlement than we are to-day. If the Asquitliian proposal is t ogive Ireland dominion home rule, it must give Ireland full control of its ownmilitary and navy.