LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1922, Page 3

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

cUSntAI.IAN AND N.Z. OAHU’. ASSOCIATION GENEVA. September 29. The, report of the League’s Fourth Commission shows that the League of •Nations is financially embarrassed, nwj u,r to the non-payment of contributions lV members, totalling 5.000.000 K«W francs tor 1921, while the payments hitherto have been only 45 per rent., „f t he 1922 contributions, while t-i* League’s budget has increased to £25.500,000.

LEAGUE EXPENSES. (!{••<’cived this dav at 11.30 a.m.) GENEVA. October 1.

The Council of tho League of Nations hits abolished the system "f apportioning the League expenses on the Postal I'nion system, am! substituted a units basis on the amount of each country s wealth. Tie total units are 914. Britain's share is iiinelytive: India sixtyflvo; Canada thirty-four: South Africa fifteen, and Australia twenty-six. GENEVA. Sept 30.

A corresondeiit, states the League Council, lias decided the eiglut most important industrial .countries entitled to seats on the Council of the Industrial Labour Bureau wen :— Germany, England. Frame. Belgium. India. Canada. Italy and Japan. India thus won the fight,, ousting from the Council. Switzerland, which was the holder

of a scat, and Poland which was supported 1)v France, giving the British Empire three seats out of the eight. (Received this day at 11.3(1 a.in.) LONDON October 1. The observer's Geneva corresi oudent interviewed lit.. Hon. Robert Cecil who now is recognised as 'eailer of the assembly of the League of Nations. He Slid the third Assembly marked an euormo's advance on the predecessoi s. None could retain the smallest misgiving regarding the League's permanent progressive development. Nothing had been more striking in this Assembly than the demonstration of its resolve to decline any domination by tile Allied Powers, The Assembly now realises its strength.