MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

"WOOL PACKS. LONDON, Nov. 14. Following on the Bradford Conference on Sept, 9th., a Conference attended by memlters of the wool industry and Dominion producers opened in London this morning to discuss a suggested new pack, designed to greatly reduce expenses. Agent-General Fairhairn presided. Australia. South Africa and New Zealand were officially represented. Mr Aykroyd (Cliairinan of Bradford Chamher) submitted a pack of five hundred pounds compared with the present 330. permitting a lower cost and tare. It' is made of a light wool mixture avoiding into blemishes in unpacking, and to he handed with iron hoops. A committee comprising five reoresenlntives of the trade and six producers was arranged to consider Ihe pro|m-:J. Mr Aykroyd . expressed Ihe opinion that Ihe new pack would save eight hundred thousand sterling, lie added jocularly that it was worth while to reimburse a feiv growers of l lie cost of a new press.

Replying lo a suggestion to reduce the size to the dimensions at present used. Mr Aykroyd declared that the trade had tried all sizes and five hundred was the only practical pronosilion considering shipping and railway Iroght-.

Another Iradeite poinied out that freight for .-fix thousand miles from Buenos Ayres was only a farthing, compared with l',d for twelve thousand miles from Australia, due partly lo the u«e of tlie Siltllb. packs.

THE OSAKA FIRE. TOKYO. Nov. LI. The hotel fire at Osaka, according to later information, shows many guests including three British and one American escaped unhurt. Early reports that the adjacent building, the Bunkers’ Club, was destroyed are untrue.

EMPIRE FOREIGN POLICY. LONDON, November Id. The employment of the League of Nations as a safety valve for Imperial relations regarding foreign affairs was suggested by Yiseount Grey in a speech which was wirelessly broadcasted. Dealing with the problem of developing the iiidcnendeueo of the sellgoverning dominions, and yet maintaining the unity of the whole, Lord Grey emphasised the need for frequent personal consultations with the Premiers in order lo sequre a united British front, and also in order to guard against embarrassment or perplexity overseas on (lie occasion of an unlorc-sc.-u crisis, like the Chanak crisis in I Britain might promise the Dominions to refer any dispute with a foreign Power to the International Court of Justice, the League of Nations. or to arhilrale as a guarantee that the Dominions would not suddenly he called upon to lake a hand in a dispute which they had no time to consider the merits. He expressed the opinion that the Dominions would then know where they stood, and would .I'-'iee to regard any Power refusing arbitration as an aggressor, ami gin* their support to uphold the principle of arbii ration, which was endorsed by the Imperial Conference.

EX Pl.O-'ION DISASTER. lIEI.SIIING. November I L Du; of (55 passengers on a steamer Ivin-; in Knlka harbour, !•> are missing. as llic result of a terrihle explosion. Ol'ini It A VA(!KS\ DELHI. November I I. 'l'!,,. National ('ln i'-t m n Council "I India. rcpiTseiilniii e of all creeds, has entered an alliance with llie Christian Council of China to stain]) out the i.ilium habit, which is ravaging both (nuuiiics. A determined dfon is in l„. made to educate public opinion. It was also decided that no Chrislian h„ ( !y in India shall receive charilahle bequests from a Turf club, a custom prevalent liillicrto.

SHREWD POLICE RUSE. LONDON. November 11. It was staled at Durham Assizes, when Alfred 111-union was sentenced to a Hogging and eighteen months imprisonment. for robbing women late at nigh!. that lor the purpose of catching him. Ihe police dressed as Women, carrying Dorothy bags, and wore well made up. Britnbm, frightened hy the hulk of one of these supposed women, I„filed into the arms of a plain chillies pcilii-eman. and was caught.

BIG WAR I’ENSIONU. LONDON. Novcmher

,\ piquant discussion continues regarding Field Marshall Fir \Y. Ib’D-il-soii’s revelation that War Admirals and Generals awarded puhli - giants do not receive the capital, hot onlv the inb-r----,.s|. 'Phis has been a great surpi i-e to tin- public generally, who assumed that when the grants were made tho recipients got all tin- money. “Dailv Telegraph's" Parliumcnlaty correspondent qmiles T h’hl Mnr•dial Robertson as saving that he with, held his formal consent with tho result Unit he lest live months’ interest on live t lions and. - lie was advised legally that he could have insisted on payment but eventually he let the matter diop. The correspondent that :t is understood that Lord Realty and laird Haig were each granted one thousand, and "they also, at one time, thought of contesting the matter. It is r,-ailed that, in the course or a debate on their grants on August nth BMP, nothing was said (oncoming Lie form in which payment would lie mode. Three months later, in response to a question hv Air Baldwin, the thou financial Secretary to the Tn'sstirv said that payment had been made to the Public Trustee for investment on behalf of the recipients in six cases, and would la- made for others as soon ns the necessary trusts had hcen completed liy the parties concerned.

COMMUNISTS C'l!rncrsF.D. LONDON. November 1 1

The “Dailv Herald” (Labour paper! in an editorial (hides the Communists for persisting that whatever is Russian is right. It says: “The preaching o. Revolutionary Force, instead of voting, drives large numbers of electois to sup- , ,o-t the Tolies. If such incitements are dropped, there will be nothing b> divide tho Communists from the bocml- •| he ‘ Herald" concludes: “V H. v won’t they agree to drop them?'’