AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CA11L1! ASSOCIATION. f.S.A. LIQUOR TREATIES. (Received thjs day at 10.10 a.in.) WASHINGTON, February 13 Active negotiations with various ioicign GovcrnmcnLs regarding the adoption of liquor treaties similar to the oik with Britain, which aims at. rumsmuggling, will lie deferred pending State action or the ratification of the llritish-Anuvican paet. I’reliminary discussions have begun with the Netherlands Government and several Governments have expressed their willingness to enter a liquor treaty : TDK ERF-SI DENTS COMMENTS. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK,*'February 13. Commenting in a speech at the Natipllall Republican l Hub on the rc(VIIt lliselosure.s in connection with Die leasing of Government oil lauds. Resident Coolidge declared llmt there is an unhesitating, an immediate and an adequate prosecution, both criminal am! civil, to punish the guilty and protect the national interests. famous doctor dies.

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.'Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) T NEW YORK. February 13. Doctor l.oeb. a famous member ol Dio Rockefeller Institute, is dead, from heart disease. TO All) FARMERS’ BANKS. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON. 'February 13. T..e tioverument, with the aid id' the Morgans and other Wall Street firms, i.s creating a fund of three million sieving to save the hanking situation amongst the farming communities in tlic Central and Western States where '"’"forty country banks suspended operations during the year. %: I ■resident C’oolidge 1 cared a y-ycho-'logieal effect on the "hole Western Ciuintry and so he appealed to rierpont .Morgan "ho contributed, personally, o ,e hundred thousand sterling to restore confidence and help the tottering > institutions. *"*So serious is the situation that the Federal Reserve Bank has received, literally, thousands of letters from country bankers appealing for help.

SYDNEY, February 13. It is expected Patterson and O’HaraWood. and likely Scldesingor, will be in the Australian Davis Cup team, and there is a hope of Anderson being persuaded to go. ANDERSON UNAVAILABLE. SYDNEY, Fob. 11. The Tennis Association announced that it has decided to inform the selectors that Anderson is not available for the Davis Cup team and requests them to submit immediately the names recommended for selection.