BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. THE DOMESTIC RROBLEM. TH K lM'Bl.iC TO BLAME. • Received * his it.i'. at 9.2-> a.m.) LONLUiN. Oat. 69. The 'Domestic Sen ice t '-mmiUeo's Report states that the payment of unemployment benefit' to "omen iad hille to do with the shortage * *' ,_ niostie workers. The shortage was being exploited hy many registries where liv-iaws regulating the methods of sm-lt ollices do not exi-t. The intimate i" lalionship between dome-tics and tl etr eiui'loyers was I lie crux of both the happiness and unhappiness ol domes! service. A maid set", ant - piece ol business was also her home and where her employer recognised ibis and Dented the maid as n member of the household an atmosphere ol mutual aliection and loyalty was engendered, making happiness inevitable. Maid- who gave evidence agreed that it was not so much the employer-; atheir own friends and relatives who looked down upon donn'-slie -ervi"o. Blit the public was Ill'll altogether I tee from lilatne ns the constant caii-aim-ing of the said servant- a - dirty, harassed and import incut and the use o' contemptuous terms as ",-kivey and “slavey" were significant. The committee earnestly hop'-s that lue press, ilrnmaii-!s and humourists will realise that they nlleii. probably unintentionally, ildliclcd pain and increased the difficulties of the po-item which was admittedly causing widespread inconvenience and hardship. SING \ I'Dii’E N AVAL BASE. ll’oceived this day at 12. hi p.m.) LONDON. October 30. Addressing; t!;o Lyceum (Tub. Admiral (lay Gaunt strongly supported the Singapore naval base. As an Attsi raliau he held that as A list nil in came in Will. Loth feet in lUI 1 we mast. .stand hy Australia now. lie believed Unit eventually we should get min ill,, air. hut the transition would he

long. If. later we were finished with the navy we should have an air base at Singaiiore. HONOUR. FOR- OVERSEAS FLAYER. (Received this (lay til 12.2.) p.m.) LONDON. October 30. D. (’. Lowry, has been elected capt;iii, of the -Cambridge C ricket ( lu l This is the first oeeasion on which an overseas player has been elected to that position since Sammy A\ nods was elected, over thirty years ago. CANADIAN COAIPLAINT. (Received this day at 11 .-R> a-'”-' OTTAWA. Hu. 39.

o. .Howard Smith (President, of tli. Canadian Manufacturers A'sn.L speakino at Quebec, took a doleful view oi the elfects of repeated tarill reduet ion on industry. He said Australia barred Canada's newsprint by a prelereiice lavotiring Britain. A- a I'esu.t. Aanaua Imvs praeiieallv nothing l 1 '"' 11 lia'. If Canada had not increased bn preference on British woollen g*"’ l '• Panada would base been able In b. 111.1 an the woollen industry, and become a hie purchaser o! Au.-traluiu wool, anil therebv be able to bai'cam with Australia.' lor e M „al ire.it ment regarding newsprint. Australian prelei... ' on Brit.sh new.sprint had not, g" M'. benefited Britain, hut had hen,•tiled Scandinavian newsprint. ..I.mui.c Hirers in Britain bought newsprint mi their own use m Wc-u.iaiiu.VKi where labour was cheap, and sold tluu output to Au>il’illiil. I*OVAKTV’S OI’KST.S (Received this dYY at 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. Del. 3d Tim Dominion Premiers and <•» 11 rates to the I mpcrial Kr0,m,,,,e ton--7,.iv1H.„ were amongst their ehi.o'-.' quests' at Buckingham Fill.tec. THE BACF.K F.U’YIU’S.

LONDON. Oct. 33. j Paper,is has retiirncd to Southainp- ; ton. 'ills trainer, -larvis. dese « j track after the ran, lute jt ~ 111- is confident that with hitt.i - - I’npyrus would have YJaP-li he oil the oiillitoii that a n tut i.'.ml uid if enough mutie> irun in i.ngiau". iorthcoiiiing.

I’UOPI )SED CONFERENCE. (P.eccived this day at 12.'-, P-" 1 ; 1 OXDON. Oct. ••>>. Cabinet continued. consideration «J tbe reparations (|iiestion. I' 1 '" 1 u r“ k ‘ rViifereiue at the proposed .... t ~a . lied experts which ndeitev than nothing, ''bib •• stood no official cmnmumca mu reived from t imed >uu . ; ~ A "7 b‘' 1 •he Utt mvXd mi - inn We for riyji-. tiyphlSHVi.