BRITISH A FORFIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1922, Page 3

BRITISH A FORFIGN ITEMS

4DBTBALIAN AND N.Z. OABI.E ASSOCIATION

SIR ARTHUR BALFOUR

BRITISH STATUS AX HONOURED

LONDON, March 4,

The King gave an adience to Mr Balfour and invested him with the Order of Knight of the Garter.

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

•LONDON, March 6,

A conference of unemployed women has been held under the auspices of the Trades Union Congress.

The conference resolved in favour of greater Government assistance. The speakers declared that it is impossible for single fprls to live on 12s per week, the present unemployment allowance. A member of the Actresses Association declared that four thousand out of six thousand membei s of) her Association are now workless; and they have no prospect of getting work. Another resolution protested against the attempts being made to utilise the industrial depression to force women ijnto domestic service, regardless of their suitability. The mover said that domestics were being treated like slaves.

HONG KONG STRIKE. HONG KONG, March 6. The seamen’s strike lias end%l in a victory for the workers. The Government is forcing the shipowners to grant the employees’ demands. BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATE. TOKIO, March 6. The Japanese authorities have reversed the ban they placed on Mrs Margaret Sanger, who will he permitted to land and to lecture.

WELSH FOOTBALLER’S DEATH. LONDON, March 6. A gloom has been east over Welsh Rugby football circles, by the death of Bryn Richards, a famous full back Playing on Saturday, for Pontypridd versus Pennrth, Richards was tackling an opponent, when he fractured his spine. He died in the hospital on Sunday,

. COUNTY DOWN ASSIZES. REUTEIt’B TBI.EURAMS. JReceived This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. County Down Assizes imposed sentences ranging from three years to six years penal servitude for unlawful possession of arms.

SELLING AIRSHIPS. 11 THE TIMES ” SERVICE. (Received This Day at 8 a m.l LONDON, March 7. Owing to failure to arrange an Imperial service the Air Ministry is selling its airships.

PACIFIC TREATY. WASHINGTON, March G. The Republic Party have begun a fight in the Senate in support of the Four-Power Pacific Treaty. Senator New, in a speech, stated that there was not oven a covert threat of force in the Treaty. It did not go beyond the principle of compulsory arbitration. As the United States has for many years teen committed to arbitration as the proper means' of settling international differences, the present Treaty was not an infringement of its traditional policies.

AFRICAN CYCLONE. CAPETOWN, March 7. Further details oT the Chinde cyclone show' ten steamers were sunk or driven ashore. Eight Europeans and sixty natives were drowned. The town was practically blotted put,