AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN OPINION. NEW YORK. Oct. 20. The “New York Times” editorially contrasting the Australian and New Zealand selective immigration policies with the present haphazard American restrictive measure, and purtlv unrestricted immigration, says: “They have learned a lesson from the Cnited States. They are determined to exclude all persons who arc unlikely to lie rapidly and thoroughly assimilated. They are determined to make ilia growth of foreign colonies within their territories impossible." XEAY ARGENTINE LAW. RRENOS AYRES. (Act. 20. The British ami American packers have informed the Government that thev will cease purchasing Argentine heel', with the expectation, that all shipments to Eure pe cease within a month, as the result ot the passage of a new law fixing minimum pri'-cs. These rates are 27 centavos for chilled beef, and 10 centavos for the Continental type. The packers do not object to the price, hut to the classification, since thev have been accustomed to purchase whole herds, and the new law will so seriously derange their methods of procedure that it would he more economical to cease operations. The Government has informed the packers that it. regretted the law, hut it would he enforced.

■‘.BONE DRY" LAW. NEW YORK. Octobe- 20 The annual convention of An,:!pin State Governors was held at We-tbui!-pit. Indiana, alter a stormy d.'bOc they adopted a formal resolution pu doing them to give Riesidont Coo'd'? Hie “fullest co-operation.” ami uskMi'; F ;, .l oral aid. in the enforcement none dry prohibition. WASHINGTON. O-dobor 20. "The prohibition problems must be taken directly to the American people, declared l'te-ident Coolidge. when addressing tlie State Governors here, when tlu-y met him alter the \\<sst-hndc-it Confe:etiee. I he people, he said, formed their government, and enacted laws, and the machinery provided by Congress and the State brgis.laturemust he used to their full capacity to enforce the law. The Cnited States was not a nation of inebriates, or hyprocites. The great body of the people were thoroughly law-abiding and were entitled to support and protection. ‘T propose.” lie, said, “to give that support and protection to the limit' against everv lawless element.”