AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. WHEAT ESTIMATE. (Recoivod this dav at 9.<15 a.m.) NEW YOKE, August 7. A despntcli from Chicago says that tho Department of Agriculture hns estimated the year’s crop of wheat at 793,000 husliels which is 28,009 below tiio appraisement of a month ago. However last year’s harvest totalled 802,C00 bushels, hence the low production caused tho price to jump half a cent, to ninety-seven and a half cents.

DAVIS CUE GAMES. 'Received this day at 9..1d a m.) NEW VOP.lv, August 7. Pain prevented the .lapanese-Aus-tiraJiau Davis Cup teaun practising, thus permitting the members to visit the famous stockyards. CA N!ADIA X IN I ) USTRI KS. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 7. According to a message from Montreal, the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association has launched a campaign for the protection of Canadian industry, demanding an increased tariff on finished goods. The Association points out that since the Canadian tariff has been reduced four times she has little to gain by bargaining for preference. The Association asserts that preferential arrangements should be made, preferably with the British Dominions, but only after the tariff has been substantially increased.

THE CHESTER CONCESSIONS (Received this day at 0.0 a.m.) NEW YORK,'August 7.

According to a telegram from Williamstown, Massachusetts, Henry Morgenthau, a former American Ambassador in Turkey, addressing the Institute of Polities asserted that British interests now control the Chester concessions. ,\fr Morgeiuhau, under cross questioning, stated that his investigations of the question during his ambassadorship convinced him that, American capital originally backed the project, but the original concessionaries were sold to a Canadian purchaser. Thus Admiral Chester had been used as a mere eatspa.w and during this discussion Sir Joseph Origg and Air Philip Kerr remained silent.

COAL COMMISSION’S RECOMMENDATIONS.

(Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) WASHINGTON", August 7

The United States Coal Commission favoured Government regulation, but opposed Government ownership.

The Commission to-day issued a supplementharv report upon the labour relations in the anthracite industry, recommending that the President he empowered to prevent a general strike. The report also declares that compulsory arbitration was no true remedy and urging both miners and operators to eliminate tho irresponsible propaganda which, during a crisis, misinformed the public by publishing partial truths.