AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N-Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CANADA AND UNITED STATES. OTTAWA, May 23 The former Premier, Mr Meiglier, in a spcocli saidlf Canada had an equal chance- with the United States in the matter of population and trade volume, there might he something to say for reciprocity, but the great thing necessary is permanency; and under American reciprocity plans, the United States reserves the right to cancel the agreement at any time.

A FIRE DISASTER

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 23

Advices from Mexcala, Mexico, report five bodies recovered and forty people are missing and a prpoerty damage of two million dollars was done as the result of a fire which started in a cinema and raged for six hours. A thousand people are homeless.

STRANGLER LEWIS. NEW YORK, May 23. Strangler Lewis retained the wrestling .title, obtaining the only fall of the contest with Stanislaus Zbyqzko at Minneapolis. WORKERS HEALTH. NEW YORK, May 2.3. Dr. Robertson. Director of the Division of Industrial Hygiene in the A«stralian Commonwealth Department of Health, who has just completed a four months’ investigatory tour of the United States, under the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, leaves shortly for Europe, where lie will continue his inquiries and studies. Dr. Robertson, who has investigated the social service undertakings ol tho United States Steel Corporation, the large rubber manufacturers, amb other' companies having a great number of employees, declares that his findings are extremely interesting in their Australian bearings. He has also discussed industrial hygiene with tbe Government executives and the Labour Unions and says that he is very much impressed by the work that tho U.S.A. Federal Government is doing for the re-hahilit'ation of those crippled 'by industry, and for the vocational training of children incapacitated by such diseases as infantile paralysis. Many labour unions in New York are conducting clinics for their members for tlie purpose of eradicating industrial diseases.

BIG LOAN. NEW YORK, May 24. The J. P. Morgan Company announces that arrangements have been made with a group of American bankers to float in the United States $25,000,000 of a $130,000,000 Austrian bond issue, guaranteed by the members of the league of Nations.