BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

ATJSTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION IMPERIAL PRESS DELEGATES. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SUVA, August 5. The press delegates and passengers in the Aornngi, are: Lord and Lady Burnham, Mrs Infield, Doctor Bartolo, Messrs Fairfax, Iligginbottom, Herbert, Woodhoad, 11. and V. K. Turner, and the Canadian delegates, Messrs Savage and O'Leary and Afesdames Dafoe and O’Leary. WOMEN T EACHER S. LONDON. July .‘sl. Mr Justice Rumor, in the Chancery Division, giiing judgment in a testcase, decided that women teachers must not he dismissed lieeause they married.

In this case the Corporation of Book dismissed an assistant mistress on the ground that the primary duty of a married woman was to look after domestic affairs.

Mr Justice Romcr held that the corporation’s motive was irrelevant to the exercise fo its statutory duties as a corporation, and ordered it to pay.

BRITISH PRISON REFORM. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. August 4. Sir W. Joviisnn-f I inks welcomed the delegates at the International Prison Congress at which v.a.s revealed the striking decrease in crime in Britain. Whereas ten thousand were undergoing penal servitude in 1875. there were now sixteen hundred. Other prisoners had declined from twenty thousand to eight thousand and prisons had been reduced in number from 120 to thirtyfour in the same period. The decreases are due to better education, improvement in sobriety and the- standard of the conditions of living; also the •Judges and Magistrates exercising their discretion as to employing alternatives to detention. Ihe Government was experimenting in the segregation of first offenders for whom the huge Wormwood Scrubs was solely equipped while Wakefield Prison was devoted to giving long service and industrial training. Separate confinements had practically been abolished and prisoners were placed on their honour during the educational classes held in all the prisons in the absence of warders, (ell windows were now made open and prisoners were enabled Lo see visitors without bars, thus carrying out the Government’s desire to promote selfesteem and avoid unnecessary degradation, making tnc atmosphere one of hope rather than of despair.

“DAILY HERALD” QUERIES LONDON, August 4.

The “Daily Herald” says, editorially: “The Government appointed a Court of Inquiry for the milling dispute when it knew the miners would not participate, hut it failed to order an inquiry into the wool trade lock-out. Ts the Government nervous about what a wool inquiry would reveal? Are Ministers aware that the woollen trade employers want a stoppage in the hope that it will last- some time, because they have heavy stocks of wool, which were bought before the recent drop in prices and their only hope ol recouping themselves is for prices to rise again.” CHINESE MOI! RAID. PEKIN, August 4. A mob raided the hospital at Hangchow capturing two male nurses, who were rescued without serious injury. Chinese police are now protecting the hospital.