AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION FLUX. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 27. Tho Canadian Deputy Minister of Immigration, Mr W. J. Black, had aC. conference with the British Immigration Aid Association regarding a plan to distribute through farms in Canada one million British boy immigrants, tho first group of whom will arrive shortly. Tho plan is expected to provide tho youths with the opportunities of apprenticeships which British labour is unable to grant, since the unions there insist that youths of eighteen must receive adult wages.

r-.,', WHEAT PROBLEM

AVASHINGTON, July 27. I’ursuaut to a- plan to stabilise the wheat market, the U.S.A. Farm Bureau Federation is urging the farmers throughout the country to ask the intermediate credit banks for credit on wheat stored in the farm warehouses, v thereby making it possible to delay tho shipment of wheat until tho price conditions improve. The Federation are also endeavouring to effect a Government licensing system for such warehouses. All credits so obtained . would be extended by the Federal F«rm_--Loan Board. The Federation is confident this i.s the only practicable means of extricating the farmer from his present predicament.

PTOMAINE POISONING. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW" YORK, July 28. Seattle reports that President Harding is suffering from a slight attack of ptomaine poisoning, confining hint to bG lioi 1 upon the advice of his physician who believed that the strenuousness of the tour, coupled with the illness, might prove a serious indisposition itself. however slight. The entiro party, including Mr_ AVeeks, appear to he indisposed as a result of eating some tinned food.