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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1925, Page 3

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EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.

[Hectees Telegrams. j

(Deceived this clay at 8. 00 a.m.) LONDON, .March 18.

The Tniperial Economic Committee has belli its first meeting with the

of Trade. Sir Cunliffc luster <President of the Board of Trade) in welcoming representatives from all parts of the Empire, emphasised the importance of the development of Imperial resources and mutual trade. He premised the Government would do its utmost to assist the work of the committee.

Sir If. AlacKinder, replying, emphasised that the terms of reference indicated that the chief competitor with which the Committee was concerned was the foreign food supplier and not the home producer of Britain. The Committee, therefore, would endeavour to secure that foodstuffs for Britain came as far as possible from within the Empire. The Committee was an experiment in Empire co-operation, not an attempt at Empire Government and the future development of the Empire, both in trade and constitution, lay in the application of the principle of co-operation. BOB!) SI I EKE! EDI) DEAD. BOXDOX, March ID Obituary. Don I Sheffield. Alii HODTES TO INDIA. (Deceived tins dav at 9.25 a m 1 BOX DOX. March 19. Sir S. Braneker (Director of Civil Aviation) lias arrived at Croydon completing an aerial tour of seventeen tnousaml miles to and from Burma for the purpose of investigating new air routes. The machine and engine were unchanged throughout. Sir S. Braneker expressed the opinion that an air route to India was commercially possible ami it was only a matter of time and money.

1.A1.A1 IGR ATIOX AGREEAI EXT. BOX DON. March IS

Official British circles believe the immigration agreement will he signed before the Hon. B. C. Al. S. Amery’s (Colonial Secretary) departure lor Iraq on Thursday. It is understood the Australian proposals will he substantially accepted.

EX-GEIDM AX i’itlXCE'S EAT ID BED A I’EST. .March IS

The police during their nightly rounds in the public parks louml a ragged old man asleep on a bench and lie turned out to he the German exPrince Alexander I lohenlohe Ochringer, aged 51, who is destitute, lie was sent to the workhouse and will lie deported from Hungary, lie had to resign his title of iVince in 1595 owing to a morganatic marriage with an actress. GEH MAN'S ST lED SPYING. (Received this dav at 9.25 i.tn.) PI! AC EE, Alarch 18. A Cxecho-Slovakiaii military aeroplane o 1 »si■ r viiiy a German balloon over Pilscu gave chase and the balloon, owing to a defect, was compelled to descend. when it was found the occupants included a German major and the editor of a newspaper with apparatus. The Germans were arrested. The newspapers are excitedly eomtt'.onling on the incident. EAAIINE IX RUSSIA. RIGA, .March 18. The Soviet newspapers speak ol the serious famine conditions in parts of. Russia which are accentuated h,v the inability of the cal tie raising districts to provision the cities, especially Deningrad where riots are reported to have occurred, the angry crowds demanding loud, they being dispersed h,v the police. Bykolf in refusing (he applied ion for a .subsidy for the metal industries stated that four millions must he add ed to the starving millions whom the 'Government was already supporting, whilst an over-estimate of the harvest yield had caused a collapse of the budget.

attne explosion cause. Received this day at 8.80 a.m.) XEW YORK. March IS. Thirty-three men were killed in I‘«rniont mine explosion, which it is non slated was caused by ignited gas. MONEY-LENDERS’ BILL. LONDON. March 18. The House of Lords read the Money Lenders’ Bill a, second time. Lord Carson disclosed that a young relative lust money through racing. A Lookmaker introduced him to a money-lend-er whom lie repaid the whole sum borrowed, plus o!compound interest, and he still owed six hundred sterlingHo prayed that his bitterest enemy should escape the clutches of moneylenders. another PROPOSAL. PARTS. March IS). AI Renos discussed with M. Harriot Europe’s security. He outline.] a scheme to constitute the United States of Europe. Reims aims at forming two groups, an Easter: consisting of Fn'dand. France, Belgium and Germany ■ and a Western group compris-jCzecho-Slnvakia, .Tugo-Slavia, Austria and all other Central European Powers, allowing Italy to pen /"the! group, and inviting Spain to join Rio Western, the signatories to guarantee L, nnituallv protect their frontiers and accept compulsory arbitration Al. Bencs is of the opinion that, the Dominions would not object to such a regional understanding, which does not require the placing of military forces at toe disposal of another country, lie herpes the scheme will he accepted as a siibs.itule for the protocol boloiv tae l.caiMiu's September meeting. " ftm ]j POWERED GENERATOR. PARIS. Alarcli 18.

The University is installing a generator will, unprecedented power, producin'' a direct current ol six hundred thousand volts, for the purpose ol creating radio-active rays tor the treatment of cancer. The university also is experimenting with the breaking up of the gold atom, enabling the absorption of the alpha particle whereby it. is converted into mercury which is then retransmitted into gold. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. AT arch IS. The Hon L. C. AL S. Amery ha.^ decided to visit Australia and New Zealand in the autumn. TLTSSARD’S WAXWORKS TURNED). LONDON. March IS-

\ fire broke out in Afadame TnssanP fames wax works in Alarylebone Road, the flames reaching a great heignt. Ihe hnilding was neatly burned out m an hour.