BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1922, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

IUsTRAI.IAN AND 5.7.. CAJILE ASSOCIATION, MORE IMMIGRANTS. LONDON ,Nov 28. Air Piekford, lecturing the Colonial Institute on the Boy Scout movement, stated: “The Dominions want men from Giwlwell Park (the principal British Scouts’ canip) to assist to start training settlement schemes. He suggested the movement should include girl guides, . ~ „ . Sir J. Cook, presiding, said Boy Scouts about seventeen were the best human material tor emigration, Air AlacXaugiiton (Vice-Chairman the Overseas Settlement Committee) said Mr Piekford had a great field lit the Dominions, for promoting Boy Scouts’ migration. He suggested the . establishment of camps m Dominions in which immigr.rton Scouts could lie trained part of the tune in.camps and partly oil farms. Whatever scheme wa.; adbpted, an essentia) provision should he made for the welfare ot tho bov emigrants after arrival overseas. He hoped girl ftuhlo.r would launch ■> similar migration policy Gnl immigrants were not less essential to the Dominions than bovs.

CUNO’S NEW PLAN. PARIS, November 28, “be Pejtit Parisien’s” Berlin cor- .. respondent says: Government circles have abandoned the idea of seeking flu immediate foreign loan of 20 nulliaid gold marks, and have decided to seek half a milliard, together with three- — or four years’ moratorium, in order to stabilise finance and enable a larger loan to be borrowed later.

AIR BONAR LAW. LONDON, November 28. Air Bonar Law met the managers of the principal railways at - Downing Street and discussed unemployment relief schemes, principally the extension and electrification of existing schemes. It is officially stated the railway, companies expressed a desire to assist in every way possible, and promised to furnish the Government with information regarding work undertaken and additional schemes which might be undertaken at an early date. It is unofficially stated tho railways’ plans .. contemplate an expenditure of fifty or sixty millions. A GERMAN TRIUACPH. LONDON, November 28. The “Daily Mail” says that the latest triumph of German design is a complete all metal aeroplane, with a speed of 100 miles an hour. The machine is capable of being packed in a quarter of an hour. It has five metal tubes, specially designed for use at sea, taking up a small room on a steamer. NEW USE, FOR COAL. PARIS, November 27. Taking advantage of the exploding of some French household coal, a Paiisian, named Thomas, tried to frighten his mother-in-law out of his house by putting a bag of what lie told her was gunpowder on the kitchen range. The mother-in-law became so terrified tliat v •*- she ran for the police, at the sight of whom Thomas broke down, and confessed the trick. Ho was arrested for being in unlawful possession of explosives.