WISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1926, Page 2

WISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

IUJTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

THE AVOOL TRADE

LONDON, Jan. 19. The Yorkshire Post’s Bradford corespondent lengthily draws attention ‘.o the baldness of the AYool Federation's announcement (cabled last Frilny) turning down Sir J. Higgin’s dans lor wool control that were dismissed on December 10th. last.

The correspondent says tlie Federation’s annual report does not indicate -U that occurred on December 10th. There was, he says, a conspiracy of si'ence at the annual meeting, wherefrom it should have been expected that the position would have been made clear to the world’s wool users. Ml the notes were destroyed at Sir J. Higgins's request. He will make his nvn report in Australia. His version I might not fit Bradford’s. Naturally, says the writer, such secrecy creates ontroversies. Obviously Sir J. Higgins proposes to further disturb tbe Australian wool trade, and it should have been Bradford’s business to throw light on what was in his mind. Canada and Australia. CANADIAN FRUIT GROAVERS ALARMED. VANCOUA'ER, Jan. 19. Criticism of the Australian Trade Treaty, in so far as it affects the fruit industry in Canada, was featured in the Presidential address by Air Lionel Ward, at the annual meeting 'if the British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association at- A r crnon, British Columbia on Tuesday. He warned his hearers, saying “ that this treaty is M one which will have very serious ef- W fects on the fruit and vegetable inilustry of tlie province, as already lions have been received for apricot pulp at a lower delivered price than the growers have lieeti receiving in the nast for fresli fruit. The same conditions are likely to arise with berry pulp and canned tomatoes. N.Z. FRUIT IN BRITAIN. LONDON, January 19. Air Gray, Chairman of tbe New Zealand Fruit Board, has stated the Dominion’s case before the Imperial Economic Committee. He is at present visiting the north of England and Scotland arranging for the distribu-N tion of coming shipments of fruit. A

STATUE OF ATHENA FOUND. ATHENS, Jan. 20. Peasants near Calacryta, in the Peloponnesu, unearthed a life size bronze statue of Athena. Experts have not yet been able to examine the remarkable find as the peasants have concealed it and even the arrest of the peasants has failed thus far to induce revelation of the hiding place.