ARSENIC IN APLLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 2

ARSENIC IN APLLES

LONDON, February G. ft is learned that some importers of ” Australian apples are insuring with Lloyd’s underwriters against the condemnation or prohibition of the imports on the ground of tho apples being affected as the result of spraying witli arsenic. The premium is 20s per L‘loo. The underwriters are taking the risk up to seventy-five per cent ol the cost of the apples, the insurers hearing the risk on the other twenty-five per cent. Some importers are also insuring against possible action by the retailers, who may Ik 5 prosecuted for selling arsenated apples. The National Federation of Fruit traders has organised a guarantee Lind of 11000 to defray the retailers’ costs in defending prosecutions.

NEW FRENCH TAXATION. .... „ d’AIHS, Feb. G. I he bi ench Chamber by 142 votes to 2 lias adopted a proposal that the Deputies and Senators shall in detail declare their incomes, and also the number and the value of tlieir residences, their motor cars, and the amount of their wealtli at the outbreak of the war and at the Armistice.

ArEXICAN EXECUTIONS. VERA CRUZ, Feb. 6. General Jo so Riveron and two other officers were executed at Jalapa on Friday in connection with an alleged revolutionary plot.

A MISSION EJECTED. PEKING, Feb. 6. The Anglo-Chinese College at Swatow. belonging to the English Presbyterian .Mission was evacuated by the mission authorities whom the Chineso Communist students drove out. The mission’s property at Chaochow was forcibly seized by the troops, who considerably damaged the houses of the missionaries. GERArANY ’S ENTRY. PARIS, Feh. s: Herr Hoesch informed AI. Briaud that Germany will send her application for membership of the League of Nations on Alondav.