NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1921, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL

* TRADE DEPRESSION

LONDON, Nov. -10.

In consequence of threatened trade depression ,the Ulster linen industry has decided to estalish a protection fund of £500,000 to help firms who may require financial aid pending the restoration of normal conditions.

The flax markets recently held in Ulster, adds the Daily Chronicle Belfast correspondent, have failed owing to lack of buyers-and also to the withholding of supplies by farmers. DOCTOR DRUNK. LONDON, November 20. Sentence of three months’ imprisonment was passed yesterday at London sessions on Frederick Gover, 38, said to be' a medical practitioner, of 47, Hartland-road, Stratford, E., for being drunk while in charge of a motor-car in Kingsway and causing grievous bodily 7 harm to Mary Ann King, of Peabody buildings, Drury-lane, W.C., who was knocked down. Mr Travers Humphreys, prosecuting, said it appeared that a person, no matter how many times he had been found guilty of being drunk in charge of a motor car,, could get - a licence, and there was no power in the licensing law to stop him. Gover ought never to \ have been allowed a license, for this' was the fourth time he had been found guilty of this offence. Mr Huntly Jenkins, said Gover had four practices, but had' to sell three of them to pay £330 compensation and the costs of this case. It meant ruin to him. M ' MEN MANNEQUINS. BERLIN, Nov. 20. The first trade fashion parade to be held in Berlin since the -wa retook place yesterday evening in the Marble Hall of the Zoological Gardens. It was aN tended by about 5,000 people. To the strains of a two-step, a young man mannequin in violet silk pyjamas led on to the stage a young' woman mannequin in what was intended to be a perfect poem of a “nightie” in cerise and lace insertion—a play-acting, of course, since you could see the young -- man mannequin’s braces and padded shoulders through the diaphanous China silk.

They stood for a moment before a looking-glass and then strolled selfconsciously down the platform. Others followed in shades transcending the wildest dram of the aniline chemical laboratory—marguerite yellow, carnation white, liortensia ipink, and chrysanthemum lilac. Then a dashing young man in a travelling suit of brown with pointed patent shoes, trousers creased to a nicety, and an almost brimless emerald green felt hat, led on a wonder of a sportswoman in a. dainty, if attenuated, garment of all kinds of white and violet velvet, and fur, in high-heeled white hoots. One must not be accused of envy if one wonders how on earth' Germany manages to afford it.