MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

BRITISH SURPLUS. LONDON. March 14

Official returns show there is a surplus over revemio whioh amounts to £103.0(X),000 instead of only an estimated three-quarters of a million. Sixtyfour millions worth of Treasury bills have already been redeemed in L-. 3. The papers stress this as a romarkable result, being achieved despite reductions in income tax. and m tb duty on tea, coffee, cocoa and otliu commodities.

LIGHT OVER PENSIONS LONDON. .March 14. The Labourites kept a small Houso sitting until four o’clock in the morning in attempting to secure amendments to the Pension Regulations Ihe Government thrice applied Hie fiuil?- , line, securing the rejection of Laboui s motions hv small majorities.

RELEASED AIRMEN. CONSTANTINOPLE. March 13. The released British airmen, who fell behind the Turkish lines, have arrived here Thev state that when they descctided behind the lines, they were immediii'A'lv surrounded hv friendly ' 1 * jjs,. r ,. Hicy were never ill-treated throughout- their stay. They sav the Turkish troops are b.id|v clothed .but are well ted. They a.e sick of the waiting, and want peace.

athletics. LONDON, Afareh 13. The New Zealander Purbnehot, who entered*for the three mile race at Cambridge against Oxford on the 24th.. is a doubtful starter as lie has slightly sprained both ankles CRICKET. LONDON. March 12. Alarylebone refused to reduce the enuntrv qualification to one year, but a player' who had played for County foi three consecutive years would he qualified to represent that county tot the rest of his life. NEW ZEALAND TEAM IN N.S AV. SYDNEY, Alareli Id The New Zealand tennis team’s programme has been altered The team will now play the Metropolis on March Hi and 17, and will pU.v >» the „f Svdnev tournament, It P‘ f *> s a”■;!ilist Bathurst on March 26, at DubBo on the —Sth : against Orange <m \,,,-il 3rd, and, if it can lie arranged will play New South Wales on Apu (Hi, and 7th. and also, it possible, will moot the eotnhined Universities on April l I tli and 12th. TRADE INCREASE NEEDED. LONDON. -March 13. hi his presidential address to the Federation of British Industries, Sir Eric Getldes said: “In order to support our adult male population, which is to-day thirteen hundred thousand in.,re than in 1312, we need at least a J 5 per cent, increase in the volume ol our trade, compared with before the war. That surplus of population cannot 1,0 employed without the necessary capital equipment, aiul for that wo must look mainly to our people’s savings. The Estimates for the coming year show a real saving of about fifty ’millions, for half of the apparent hundred millions saved is a merely cessation of war charges. Roughly speaking, to the present date, tho Government has given elfect in two years to what the Committee on National Expenditure considered eolll‘l be done during the first year. The country’s trade is lieing -tranglcd by high taxation, that is taking the savings which should provide • the capital which is the life-blood of • industry.”

MOTOR RECORD. AUCKLAND, March 14. A new motoring record from Wellington to Auckland has been established by (I. L. Campl-ell and L. F. Bedford, in a Durant four, they covering the journey, in To hours 26 minutes, or 41 minutes letter than the previous reeurd put up by W. S. Miller. For the first 300 miles the roads were good, hut- Tauinatamaire Hill was laid. Rain was experienced all the way. Wellington was left at 3 a.m. Wanganui was reached at 0 a.m., Hawera at 0.25, Mokap at 11.30. To Kuiti at 2.5 p.nt. Hamilton at 3.15 and Auckland at 6.26. LABURNUM AT BLUFF. INVERCARGILL. March 14. H.M.S. Laburnum arrived at Bluff to-day, and was welcomed by the Mayor of Bluff and the Mayor ffflnvercargill. The Laburnum Saturday for Milford Sound.

TROTTING APPEAL. CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. At a meeting of the Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association, the appeal of James McTaggart, against Ins disqualification, with his trainer, F. J. Owen, and his horse Wild Hehe, by tho Greymouth Trotting dub, was di ta]lowed-