MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. dkratisation y LONDON. May I I. A now word derntisation, mentioned on the resumption of the International , Shipping Conference, was explained as -r the fiiniigiition of ships every six mouths, with the object of killing rats. The d isctissiou showed deratisatiou was. unpopular, .shipowners often working it out at £SO per rat. They asserted the cost in one ship was 2-107 to kill one rat. A committee was appointed to consider the whole question of sanitation. The Conference rcs.nliitinned urging the aholition of policies or acts of llagrrtnt discriinination which impeded the free (low of international commerce. A discussion on port facilities chiefly concerned delays at Dritish ports and ended in the adoption of a resolution urging maritime nations to do their utmost to secure seaports keeping the pace with modern requirements of c- trade. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE. LONDON, May 11.

Protests .against the migration of children apart from their relatives to the dominions, was made by delegates to the National ('oiiforome of Labour AVoinen now being held tit London. The Conference passed revolutions urging the stoppage of snob emigration until completely satisfactory plans were made to ascertain the children’s own ineiinations, and In supervise them lifter arrival. The Conference passed a resolution urging the Minister of Health to appoint a committee to inquire into the care exercised in maternity eases and to investigate physical and social effects of the various methods of hirtli control, and to lecommeml a scheme to make the lies! advice available to women deserving it.

..(iI'TII AFRfCAX POLITICS. CAPKTmVX, AI ay M. General Smuts, speaking at .rohannesbttrg said that if he had stood firm Air Cresstvcll might have killed secession, hut he had only left the <|iiestinu in

abeyance for a few years after which it might hurst out again. If an undertaking was included in the pact, that '’secession would not he pressed on the people of the cotiiitiy»until the English people also were in favour of it. ho (General Smuts) would have nothing further to say about secession, but if C'resswell and Ilerl/og attempted so to amend the pact, Hielmau and Moose and bis commanders would at once secede from tlie Nationalist Party, because they were out for secession. General Kemp, the ox-rebel who is generally regarded as the Minister of Defence designate in the event of the 'Nationalists being returned, speaking at Bethel in the Transvaal, said that no principles were given up in the pact, but only the promise not to declare South Africa a Republic, within the next five years. Propaganda' could be made use of freely at all times. Asked whether the Nationalists were the Secessionist Party, General Kemp, said they were the Idealist Party who •would make South Africa independent as soon as a majority declared in favour of such a step. If England refused. Africa could do as she liked. The Governor-General could not refuse his signature to such act. If lie did they would simply declare themselves independent and maintain their action with -Tjjnts if necessary.

received a large consignment of choice cooking and desert apples with instructions to sell at lowest market price. Also choice pears.—Paterson, Michel and Co.. Ltd. Phone No 2. Advt.