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Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1924, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SETTLEMENT DELED AT lONS BE PORT. ADVERSE COMMENT ON LAND POLICY. LONDON, July 3. The Overseas Settlement Delegation's report on New Zealand comments on the lack of a land settlement policy which is ascrihahlo to the Government’s prior obligation to settle soldiers. The delegation alludes to tho apparent high prices of land on which settlers are not obliged to utilise the first fruits of their labour for paying olf the debts and interest which are inseparable from high priced land. Furthermore, the Dominion farmers lor the same reason are so burdened that they cannot employ farm labour at current wages.

OLYMPIC SCULLS. LONDON. July 3. (•oil"ii represents Britain only in the Olympiad sculls. 11USSO-1 ’ E R SIA N TREATY. (Received this dav at 0 a.m.) TEHERAN, July 4. Tho Busso-l’ersiaii Commercial Treaty lias been signed. AMERICAN FLIGHT. DELHI, July I Tin* American airmen have arrived at Multan. INCOME TAXATION. LONDON, July 4. At the Chambers of Commerce Congress the London Chamber submitted a resolution urging the Imperial and Dominion Governments to adopt residence as the sole basis for income taxation. Mr Moss (Fremantle) said there was not the slightest hope of the Australian Federal and States Parliaments agreeing to uiis. ft would mean fa\otiring the absentees. The resolution was adopted, although the whole of the Australian and New Zealand delegations voted against it. MURDER. MYSTERY. LONDON, July 3. A mysterious Piccadilly crime, believed to he a vendetta or a murder feud is engrossing the attention <4 Scotland Yard. A young Foreigner as seen at midnight, surrounded by men, who were attacking him with sticks. All fled, leaving the victim lying on the pavement near Air Street, with a gashed throat and wounds on his body. Death followed in the hospital. Ilis passport gave the name of Martial do Chevalier and a London address, hut the victim is unknown there.

A PEER’S BILL,

LONDON, July 3

The House of Lords read the second time a Bill introduced by Lord Danesfort forbidding the teaching of seditious and blasphemous doctrines to children under sixteen. Lord Danesfort said the Bill in no way interfered with the teachings of Socialism and other political propaganda, hut it forbade the “violent garbage of Atheism anil Bolshevism.” Lord Haldane opposed the Bill as being an objectionable and retrograde one. OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT REPORT. NEW ZEALAND CONDITIONS. LONDON, July 3. The overseas settlement report also alluded to the apparent high price of land in New Zealand, which has not diminished in ratio to the lull in pioduco values; and expresses the opinion that it will he necessary to obtain inexpensive laud whereon new settleis will not ho. obliged to utilise the first fruits of their labour. LONDON, July 3.

Enthusiastic references to climatic

farming advantages offered in New Zealand are contained in the report ol the Windham Delegation last year to pursue inquiries aliening British settlers. It says:—"The How of immigration dearly requires to he carefully regulated, whether it he for land or other imposes. The Delegation recognised that considerable capital i- necessary to place any new land settlemoilt scheme upon «a sound basis. Ihe financial difficulties, therefore. are very real. The Government has heavy commitments in connection with the settlement of the New Zealand Expeditionary ex-servicemen. These have been represented as a reason why. until all such are provided for. it is considered undesirable to throw open areas for selection under new schemes. The Delegation pays u tribute to the work of the Departments of Land and Vriculture, and incidentally suggests tllev should extend their scient.he and educational work, the foundations for which have already been laid Departments at Wellington and oil the State farms.

MOROCCAN M'AR Madrid, •inly i. Operations in the western zone m Morocco are developing, hut arc i,,c most difficult, owing to the hill) mol broken character ol the giound. A CAPTAIN'S STORY THE GUN-RUNNING EPISODE.

LONDON, duly 4. I The “Daily Express” says: Degoedc. of the steamer Hol.k . toll. I a dramatic story of how. "hen hi •• out of a ioh at Rotterdam, he was ask- ! ed to run a cargo of machine gm > tYm'n England to I Vt rograd. He >^ llt ed he found a motor boat m the . “■ , whence he iraiislup|x'd fouitien tastes to the ..elder w„,J, were earned to the Winter P-'lncc ot tin , Czar’s near I’clrograd. Scores of detectives ront.nue a search on the Thames. Y esterdnv the) s-,i *-»-«;

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.1 AI’ANKBK ( AI! STIMKE. T'.tKIO. .inly :i - The "trc‘<-1 o;ir drivers and coiiduvt„rs linve struck in l>aka U^wr\M. EMIMKK SMIITINO I.KCISI.ATION LONDON. •Inly :l■The Congress of the Chambers of Commerce adopted a resolution moved bv a Svdney delegate. .Mr Meeks, u ,r‘ii,,r the repeal of the existing merchant shipping legislation, and the substitution for it of an Kmpiie Merchant Shipping Aet, applying to Empire vessels entering and clearing the customhouses of the Ltnpiie. Tho Swansea delegate. Mr lurpin. descrilK’d the proiiosal as impracticable. Ho said that Australia was the greatest. cause of trouble to British shipping in the whole world. U was up to Australia to put its own house in order first, by accepting the C nrriagi for Goods hy Soft Act.

PREMIER’S SON TO STI'DY LAROUR. (Received this day at 0.2-3 a.m.l LONDON. July 1. The “Dailv Mail” states the Prime Minister’s son. Malcolm, is starting on 0 world tour in September to study the L[\hnuf movement,