MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION FINANCIAL -MISSION. LONDON, Dec 28. Stanley Baldwin and Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England with two financial experts have nailed for United States on a mission regarding ilia funding of British debt to America. Interviewed Mr Baldwin emphasised the delicacy of the mission and pointed out that under the present arrangements the British payments to America amount to between sixty and seventy millions sterling annually. U was hoped to fund the debt and get tin burden of tbe interest eased.

EX POUT OF LAMBS. LONDON. Dee. 2W The Incorporated Society of Importers lias cabled ill- Massey, reiterating its protest against the N,/. Moat Control Hoard’s decision to make the retention of kidneys in (anterbuiy lambs compulsory. They point out that the retention would ruin the prestige of "'Canterbury.” Ninety-eight per ( It buyers, they say. are unanimous in wanting the kidneys out. l! was usual in ail trades for producers to color for the buyers' requirements, lint ; tile Meat, Control Hoard, by this order, I was directly opposing llm buyers’ wfshj c .. Tim same cable has been sent to j the Meat Producers' Hoard, with a rc- ! ,|uesl to make the order, so far us Can- ' t■-■•;>u 1-y at least is concerned, eptional ' and not compulsory. I,ON WON, Dec. 28. The Southampton Harbour Board has reduced' its dues from Ud to Id per not ! registered ton, which is the lowest fer ' Britain’s principal ports. ' . IN PALESTINE. (Deceived this day at 8..10 n.m.l LONDON, December 29. A report dealing with civil administration of Palestine between Ist. July, 1920 and 31st. December 1921. shows seven thousand immigrants entered the country under tlm Jewish national home policy, hut owing to the dearth 1 of immigration during the war it is 1 doubtful whether the Jewish population is now greater than in 1914. A fea- ■ ture of the period has been the great in- ’ crease in imports from Germany and Austria, not merely due to deprociat- ’ ed currencies and low exchanges hut t®

the- determined efforts of German merchants to get a footing, in Palestine. Their methods extended to catalogues and price liste in the .vernacular. Ibis considerably impressed Palestine importers.

question of tenancy. (Reseivcd this dav at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON, December 20. The “Times” correspondent at Glasgow reports a chaotic situation exists on the Clyde where there is open warfare between landlords and tenants. The Courts me powerless to intervene. Twenty thousand householders in Glasgow and tens of thousands in Paisley, Dumbarton. Clydebank. Renfrew and other places in the west of Scotland have been deliberately with-bolding rent for months, and the landlords are refusing to pay the rates. Local machinery is thrown out- of gear The trouble began in 1020 when a majority of tha factors failed to serve fonnal notices to quJt on the tenants, he fore raising the rents to the limit allowed by the Rent Restriction Act. Because of this omission, the House of Lords decided that all such increases were illegal and the upshot was that tho tonants were entitled to sit rent free for periods of nine to twelve months. Over eighty per cent of Glasgow houses were affected, involving a rental of three millions. Tf the Lords decision stands, the landlords will lose £1,250.000 sterling. The landlords believe Parliament will eventually quash the Lords decision which frustrates the intention of the Legislature, but the tenants are prepared to fight any action favouring the landlords, tooth and nail. Mr Ramsay MacDonald has already committed labour to such a course. ft was owing to the attitude of labour on this question that its candidates were successful at tho elections. The situation is more difficiilt ns tlie Lords form hlie only barrier to eviction of thousands of people, and it is admitted the quashing of their decision will not solve the problem.