BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

*USTItAI-lAN ANI) N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. CO i' RT APPOINTMENTS. LONDON. Feb. 18. It is announced that the following t'tunt appointments will be made, and will be of non-political character, during the present Administration. herd Chamberlain—Earl Cromer. Lord Steward—Earl Shaftshurv. Master of the House—Earl Granard. I,ord.s-iji-Waiting—Lords Hampden and Colebrooke. Captain of the Gentlemen at Anns — Earl Dunmore. Captain of the King’s Yeoman of the Guard—Lord Loch. The two first named occupied the same posts under the late Government.

A VET’S ILLNESS.

CAPETOWN, February 20.

A South African veterinary expert, who had been studying tho foot and. mouth disease at Glasgow developed the disease oil his voyage to South Afina H-e was quarantined on arrival. A complete recovery is expected.

BIGGEST OIL FIELDS.

PEKIN, February 29

Chinese Turkestan possesses the greatest oil fields in the world, according to it statement by Alajor Dockrey, a Afarconi wireless expert, who spent- two years in Turkestan, erecting radio stations.

Major Docrey is going to London to negotiate with the British oil companies to open up the fields which, he says, are thousands of miles in area, from Akau to Urumolii, continuing on to tne Baku oil fields. COTTON SUPPLY. LONDON, February 19. In the House of Commons, replying to Sir J. Lyle, Rt. Hon. Sidney \Vcbh (President of the Board of Trade), stated that the Government considered the increasing of the world's supply of raw cotton to he most important. It had every intention of carrying on a policy of promoting cottongrowing within the Empire.

SIR J. ALLEN’S VIEWS. I/INDON, February 20

Sir James Allen (New Zealand High Commissioner) addressed the Bristol Branch of the Colonial Institute. He urged the encouragement of the use of New Zealand produce in Britain. If they wished New Zealand to take more people from Britain, they should use more New Zealand produce. He dwelt on tlie vital necessity of preserving Imperial lines of communication, and he emphasised that the League of Nations was not yet .in a position to provide a peaceful world, while he declared that tlie Washington Disarmament Conference had done little to assure safety for the Empire communications, espect-" inly those in the Pacific. In the event u! a conflict he declared New Zealand, tl-cugo most pacific, would never fail to respond to the call of duty to the Empire.

INDIA’S DEMAND

DELHI, February 19. The India Legislative Assembly adopted, by 70 votes to -fB votes, the resolution of Mbtilal Nehru leader of the Swarajists, urging that steps he taken Jm the revision of the Government of li.oia Act. with a view to the establishment of a full responsible government. summoning a representative, round-table conference for Inula, and, after dissolving the central Legislature, to place tlie scheme, for approval, belore it newlv-eleeted Legislature, and tfcc submission of same to Parliament to he embodied in the Statutes.