MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1925, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLK ASSOCIATION HEILMAN TRADE BOOAI. LONDON, April Ifi. The Daily .Mali’s Essen correspondent says. " Industry in Germany is making giant si rides towards prosperity. While the British manufacturers continue to fight hopelessly the twin evils of excessive taxation and high prices, their Ruhr rivals are speedily increasing (heir production and are reaching mit with supreme confidence to capture world markets. There lias been a remarkable change in the Ruhr. A year ago it was industrially dead, because it was passively resisting the Drench occupation. Now tli{> mines ami the factories are teeming with activity. Strikes are now unknown. During the past year, the unemployment there has lallcn from 750,000 to two hundred thousand. Krupps are employing -10,1)00 men in making locomotives and rolling

stuck for India. There is a policy id refusing to buv British goods, while supplying British orders. I bis gives the prospect- of a. steady growth in foreign trade. Germany i- content to await a rich harvest . SI 11 BRING RINGS. OTTAWA, April 18. A defence of the conference system in effect among the North Atlantic steamship lines was made before Hie special committee of the House of ('.ominous on ocean rates. Henry ( leminson, General Afanager ol the Chamber of Shipping of the 1 nited Kingdom, told the committee that those who contorolled the merchant fleets in Canada, Australia and United States bad found it essential in the interest of their shippers to colder as to rate. An allegation made in a report by Mr AV. T. TL Weston, who investigated the ocean rates for the I anadian Government that the steamship companies have formed a gigantic world combine, of which the North Atlantic Conference was but a part. This was untrue, Mr Cleminson said that such a world combine was an impossibility. ANZAC DAY. SYDNEY. April 18. The Government lias decided that hotels shall close from 10.30 in the morning to I p.m. in the afternoon on Anzac. Day. MELBOURNE, April ID. Wrestling for a £IOOO purse, Thyo beat Miller in the fourth round, securing the only fall.