MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WHITE AUSTRALIA. LONDON, Jan. 15. Sir Joseph Cook, interviewed, deprecated the re-opening of the White Australia controversy. It was perfect folly and pure waste of time. Australia has made up her mind irrevocably and beyond all further argument. It was unnecessary to raise the question in any discussion about the develpment of the Northern Australia. We are doing quite well with white labour, and shall continue to do so. I deeply deplore the resurrection of these black labour ghosts, which were laid to rest by the first Federal Parliament. Any re-dis-cussion will now be misehievious in the extreme. We mean to keep Australia for the white people, preferably British. Sir Joseph Cook added that the “ Times ” editorial stating any advocacy of black labour would command neither sympathy nor support among Australians, expressed the situation exactly.

TRIAL OF LUDENDORFF

SOCIALIST DEMAND REUSED

BERLIN, January 15

Herr Radbucb, Minister of Justice, has refused a demand by the Socialist mebers of the Reichstag for the prosecution of General von Ludendoiff, on the ground, of his complicity in the Kapp insurrection. Herr Radbuch declares that though -'the von Jagow trial showed Ludendorff’s direct connection with the conspirators, the cor. respondence revealed -that he was deliberately kept in the background in case the Government struck} ,at the conspiracy before it ripened.

IMPERIAL AIR SERVICE.

'Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. The Tasmanian Agent-General, in a letter to the “Times” suggests that while Lord Northcliffe is in India he should discuss with Lord Reading the question of the establishment of an Imperial Air service.

BIG FIRE AT BORDEAUX

| (Received This Day at 9.5 a.m.) PARIS, January 17.

The Compagnie Trans-Atlantique stores at Bordeaux containing large quantities of rubber and sulphur were 1 destroyed by fire. The damage ia estimated three million francs.