AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1925, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

IUBTBuLIAN AND N.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION BRITISH THRONE. A LABOUR TRIBUTE. OTTAWA, January 12. Mrs Snowden, wife of Air .Philip Snowden, the former Chancellor of the British Kxuchequer, in the course of a speech at Montreal, said in reference to the British ’Throne: ‘"The British King and his court behaved to British Labour with so much courtesy and dignity, and so much fair play, that they haie raised themselves immeasurably in the estimation of the working classes of Great Britain, and have established their throne for ever so far as we can see it.” U.S.A. GOVERNMENT' ACCEPTS. WASHINGTON, January 12. The tentative agreement arrived at in Paris between the United States representatives and the Allied Finance Ministers lias been accepted by the Washington Government, The acceptance of the agreement was anuouiucd at the State Department where it was emphasised that there was no departure from the American policy towards the collection claims under the Dawes plan from the German annuities involved. A MF.IHCA N AVIATION. VANCOUVER. Jan. 10. A. Seattle message states that it is climated on a population basis, the United. States will be obliged to spend more than sixty-two million dollars annually on air service development, to equal the amount Australia spends yearly in military and commercial aerial development.