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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1924, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N ■£. CAULK ASSOCIATION. «4. CANADA AM) C.S.A. „,, 1; VANCOUVER, Jan. :t. Ilf' III:* appointment if Pkiuulkin Ainb.is-.ador at Washington 0 a domestic matter, ami one Unit ] would not discuss while a guest in Canada. 'So far as New Zealand is concerned, we do not propose asking for a similar appointment.” This '•’.is the reply given hy Mr .Massey when questioned on his arrival here, garding despatches slating that he had opposed the appointment of a Canadian Ambassador to the United States at the Imperial Conference. s.m coo i.rxo. Ns_ OTTAWA. -lan. ft. The Dominion officials are disturhed over the smuggling id' Kuropeau immigrants through Canada to the United States. It is reported that this illicit traflie has heeome as .prolitahlo as rum-running. The Canadian limitations 'against immigrants ire comparatively light, and after sojourning a few days or hours in Canada, the entrants are passed into the United Stales, over little-known byways, in. fast iiutouiohiles. The ollicials, who are desirous of population in this country, view with alarm the exodus of any desirable immigrant to U.S.Av hut feel they are powerless to prevent this unless the United States creates machinery therefore involving an expensive system of patrolling the border. • CONTROL TRANSFERRED. WASHINGTON. .Jan. A. The operation and control ol the flovornnleiit-owned shipping has been transferred to the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Shipping Hoard is to remain active in an advising eapaeit.v only.

'‘PLEDGES AND PHYSICAL FORCE WASHINGTON, Jan. M. The activity of the advocate of profitio" to secure, stricter eniorceinenU continues unabated. Representative Upshaw will introduce a resolu tion listing a large number of mean? wherein , the Volstead Law could he | upheld, including /Am use of the Armvj aJjlavy. ,-IT-i- has als.e ■ asked Pro-.-; to exact a pledge «>t *iimvtiuenee from Government officials,! and Cabinet officers. He -urged that foreign Governments should he requested not to send diplomatic repre sentatives who drink ostentatiously. Representative Blanton has intv • duced a Rill for rescinding the loroign Embassies liquor privileges. GERMAN DYES. WASHINGTON, Jan. I! District Judge Morris has rejected tlifevUnited States Government's suit seeking the annulment of the sale I y tho Alien Property Custodian of 3”o'-> German dye and chemical patents to the Chemical Foundation Limited of United States. An appeal to higher Courts js probable.