BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

4CBTKABIAN AND N.Z. OABLIS ASSOCIATION A GREAT EXPERIMENT. CAIRO, April 13.

Lord Balfour, speaking at the dinner given l»v the British community at Alexandria, deplored what lie termed stories of the protection given to him by the authorities in Palestine. Ho declared that Zionism was a great experiment, but one which was only affecting the smallest portion of the Arabs in Palestine. It was necessary, he said, that the Jews and Arabs should work together to add Palestinian civilisation to the world’s progress.

A. AMUNDSEN EXPEDITION. ' /LONDON, April 14. Ronald Amundsen, in a radio message from King’s Bay, Spitsbergen, states that the Frain reached the edge of the ice at King’s Bay at 2 a.m. on Monday, alter a satisfactory crossing, despite snow and fog on Sunday morning, and scattered drift .ice which compelled the Eram to proceed slowly. Small spurts of fog made it difficult to determine the position, hut sadder ]y the mists parted on Sunday night, and the Captain caught a glimpse o the northern point of Prince Carl foreland. The ship is now proceeding full speed up Fiord. During the voyage, the l. Capt. of the Fram lost connection with 1 the Hobby, which was outpaced, hut she is expected in King’s Bay in twenlylour hours. The weather forecasts have held go a and the meteuroligical service is functioning satisfactorily, and will he still hotter when American reports arc receiver!.

Captain Amundsen adds: “AYe are in excellent spirts.”

migration. 'LONDON, April 14. Sir Joseph Cook (High Commissioner

for Australia). speaking; at Brighton at the opening of a conference of teachers of handicrafts, expressed the opinion that it was infinitely more difficult to get suitable migrants or the Dominions owing to the increased number of recipients of the dole. He said “We cannot get them while they in’’ sit at homo and do so immensely well for themselves. Few young men from British cities are any good as migrants. They have minds that are created by the dole and by the pictures, and this is closely related to the unemployable mind. The Iwst migrants are those who have been taught the use of tools. The

euro for the “ca'canny” and the unemployable mind is to get hoys to like their jobs. One way to do this is by the development of handicraft tca h-

ing^’ Sir J. A. Cockburn urged i every man should have a trade to fall back upon as a last resource.