BRITISH 8 FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH 8 FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. EMPIRE EDUCATION CONKER KNCE. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, June 2d. At the Education Confcreme Mr Tate was appointed one of a committee to report- upon th,. recognition ol teacher's services through an Empire standard of academic qualifications required for a teacher’s certificate, the interchange of teachers, their selection, period of service and superannuation. BRITISH LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 20. Mr Sidney Webb presided at the annual conference of the Labour Party of about one thousand delegates, beading commoners are also present. Mr Webb declared that Labour, if in power, would tell France plainly that Britain would go no I art her with her in what seems to be a fat'd policy ol aggression, arising from wlmt ) syehoanalysts would call “fear complex”, which was unworthy of a great nation. The party would accept cordially Herman, y’s willingness to make good, to the limit of her economic capacity, the material damage inflicted on France and Belgium and to compensate civilian victims of the bomb and torpedo outrages. Mr Webb declared that t'v capital levy was sidlieieid to redeem the main bulk of the war debt, which was indispensable to any stable economic order in Britain. On a card vote the Conference's resolution in favour of the a (filiation of the Communist Party was detested by 2,880,000 to 800,000. The speakers declared that the Communist. Party was lmsod on a. constitution that was indirect antithesis to the Labour Party’s const itut ion. BRITAIN’S AIR POWER. (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 2li. Mr Baldwin, in the Commons, outlined the air policy. The Government had come to the conclusion that British air power must he sufficiently strong to \ adequately protect the country against air attack bv the strongest air I'nrcc within striking distance of this country. It should lie organised partly on a regular and permanent basis. _ The home defence force would consist ol fifty-two squadrons, created without delay, thus adding thirty-four squadrons to the authorised strength of the Air Force. AVAR REN ON TRIAL, (Received this day at 11.45 a.m.) PAWS. June 2(1. The trial of md five others, alleged to lie international bank thieves lute "begun in the Seine Criminal Court. AVarren is accused of fraudulently obtaining £23.000 from Sir AValter C.’oekcrline. AVarren declares that the money was lent to him. AVOOL SALES. LONDON. 'tuiie_2(T. The wool sales opened ut 5 to i .1 per cent, below May quotations. (TOLD MINING IN AFRICA. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) CAPETOAA'N, June 2(i. The President of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, in an open letter to the President of the South African Agricultural .Union, points out that 1)k» gold mining industry is on the dedine and new discoveries made, ol which at present, there is no evidence, mining operations must be reduced at least fifty per cent, by the end of ten years, and a portion of the taxation now brono by the mines must fall on other primary industries. He urges, in *. order to meet the new situation, an imposition of a tax on the unimproved land values, the proceeds to be devoted to the benefit of the agricultural and pastoral industries, the tax to he rer, pitted in proportion to afforestation by the fanners. ORPHANAGE BUILDING '—P COLLAPSES. [ R kutkrs Tklkc; ha ms. ] ("Received this dav at 12.15 p.m.) DKLIir, .Tune 20. The Mohammedan Boys Orphanage at Calcutta partially collapsed, burying a large number of inmates. Thirtysix Ikivs, their ages ranging from three to eighteen, are known to be dead and thirty three who were severely injured were sent to the hospital. Twenty five were slightly injured. There were altogether 229 hoys in the orphanage, and of whom seventeen are still unaccounted for. It is not certain whether they were in the building at the time of the accident, but a search of the debris js proceeding. DELHI, June 25 Three more bodies have been found in the Calcutta Orphanage disaster. One of the injured lias died. The number of dead is still unknown,