MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1925, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

i Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON. Dec. 20. At the annual dinner of the Australian and New Zealand Medical Association. Sit Arbiitlmot Lime advised the Domnion graduates to take their highest degrees in England, and not to he attracted to the American colleges. The hospitals in Britain, he said, were* most fortunate in having Dominion medical men therein. The future of surgery •was perfectly safe in the hands of the Dominions. New Zealand has handed over her pavilion as a free gift to tile Wembley liquidators, thus saving New Zealand several thousands for demolition. The special constables’ strike has completely ended throughout Lister and tiie men have resumed duty, the barracks being handed over to the officers.

The Belfast special police strike has virtually ended as the result of a conference in Londonderry, at which the Government’s terms were accepted. The strikers tire sending a deputation to ask for a month’s extra pay for till the Belfast and Enniskillen men who have already yielded to disbandment. Thirty tinned and masked men raided Kimmerhill civic guards barracks in Cavan, covered three of the civic guards with weapons, handcuffed them, locked them in the cells, anti removed all the money and correspondence. Three armed and masked men held up a postman near Xewry and stole £2J in old age pension money. The Daily Chronicle says that Cabinet has agreed upon the Cecil Research Committee’s view that a tariff under the Safeguarding of Industries Act procedure for the iron and steel trade is out of the question, and that a subside is eotially unwise. The solution must he found itt a reorganisation of the industry.

Mr Phillip Snowden. ALP., presided at a meeting of the Agents General to discuss the situation arising out of the discoveries of arsenic in American apples. Representatives of the National Fruit Federation attended. They emphasised the danger of a public scare, leading to a general Isiycoftiug of till imported apples. One Federatiotlist stated that during many years’ experience. tT:ev had never seen a trace of arsenic in Australian apples. The agents subsequently conferred and decided to suggest to their respective governments that, though there was no cause for alarm, the Australian growers ought to lie warned against marketing apples if there is the least danger of the discovery of appreciable quantities of arsenic, which is officially held to he deleterious. It is understood the affected American apples came from district- practising dusting instead of spraying. The House of Lords has passed the Safeguarding of Industries Bill. The price of gold is Bfs 11 Jd per oz. Arrived at Southampton. Athenic. Sailed from New York for New Zealand, Treneglos