MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ABSOI lAim

C.NDEI<SEI,UNG D B«rnSHTOVS. The latest statistics show that the German manufacturers have captured the whole foreign toy market m Calcutta. Beyond a few articles the British trade is now completely el - minatecl. The augmented Indian tariff has killed the British trade, while the Germans are still able 9 sell cheaply, thus undercutting their British competitors.

INDIANS ASK BRITISH NEUTRALITY. DELHI,; September 12. The Moslem members' (if the Indian Legislature have memorialised the Premier and the Veeroy (Lord Reading), stating that on 'behalf of seventy millions of His Majesty's Moslem subjects, they urge on His Majesty, the necessity of the strictest neutrality by Britain in the Turco-Greek conflict, and 1 expressing a hope for the conclusion of an honourable peace, by- which the Turks will retain Asia Minor a«d also Thrace, including Adrianople. They urge also the removal of international I control over Constantinople, with a guarantee for the freedom of the Straits. They urge also the recognition by Britain of the Sultan as Khnlif of Islam.

RAND SCHEME FOR DISPUTES CAPETOAVN, Sept. 12, Tho General Council of the South African Mine "Workers’ Union, at Johannesburg, have decided to adopt a conciliation scheme put forward by the Mining Industry and to give it a fair trial. This ’being the most important' Union on the Rand, the decision is likely to have considerable effect op other unions.