MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW WEAVING METHOD. EON DON, February IS. Ail invention revolutionising hosiery trade is claimed by Mr GrattanDoyle, the Commoner. He has revealed that a Midland firm has discovered a method of weaving silk, cotton, artificial silk and other materials, introducing a knotted stitch, enabling thy manufacture of stockings that will not "ladder.” Leicester and Nottingham manufacturers are installing forty new looms for the process. BIG KENT MINERAL PROCESS, i LONDON. February 1» I Ear-rc,idling plans to develop the Kentish iron fields and coalfields within fifty miles of Eoiidun, under the auspices of a combination of the Dor-1 amnion and Person firms have been definitely advanced. The Goverment has loaned two million sterling to Lord Cmvdi'av wljo is tlio virtual head of j tie combined linn. Town planning experts have been engaged to prevent the coalfields from spoiling the gardens of England. It is anticipated the population of East Kent, now three hundred thousand will cvcnlmillv he doubled.

TO CAPTURE RUSSIAN MARKET. BERLIN. February ID. It is announced that the Government is advancing fifteen million sterling to the industrialists of Germany to enable them to manufacture goods suitaide for export to Russia'. THE INDIAN RAIL WAVS. DEEIII, February IS. Introducing the annual budget of the. railways of India, Sir Charles limes, the Commerce Member, estimated for 1D2(! a net surplus of ten point fortylive erores of rupees, compared with I the ten point thirty-live erores of rupees surplus during .ID2o-2i! and the fourteen point sei enty-live-. erores of rupees surplus during The ex-1 (•optionally good figures for the lastmentioned year were due to bumper crops, while the slight falling oil' in the current year was due to a decreased production and export of wheat, a mil to less movement of coal.

IRAQ DEBATE CONCLUDES. LONDON. February 1-. In the House of Commons, the Labour Amendment was defeated by 2!>"> to 110.

•Mr Austen ( h;iinberlain, replying tn the debate, claimed that the ISiiti-.li Government were in Mesopotamia as trustees of the people of Iraq. ft was shameful to say the rights and interests of Iraq were being bargained away in exchange for eoneessions for the British capitalists, fie strongly denied that the Government were actuated by a desire to secure oil. Sir A. Cliamberlain disclosed that the Turks in Mart'll last year, offered Britain eon-; . cessions in eonneetion with all the oil in Mosul and two ports, if Britain gave up the territory desired. The Government replied that they were trustees for the people, were mandatories and not possessors—-and could not barter the right of Iraq to capitalists. A COB RESPONDENT'S VIEW. LONDON, February 10. The “ Daily Telegraph's’’ diplomatic correspondent says: “ It is clear, despite the adverse volume of British and Dominion opinion, and the equally adverse decision of Lhe Swedish Government, and the unfavourable attitude of Japan, that some Governments still intend to press their own or other candidatures for the Council at the March session of the League. The British attitude is unfavourable to a substantial increase in the permanent C'onneii seats. It is least unfavourable so far as the claimants are concerned, to .Spain. Finally, it is against any increase until September. KOBE!ON SEC'RETAIIY’S - STATEMENT. > LONDON. February IS. / Sir Austen Chamberlain, speaking at a Foreign Press luncheon, said the British Government had not yet decided on the attitude it will adopt towards the enlargement of the League Council. It was not a question of creating a majority one way or the other, which would negative the aims of the League, whose duty it was to reeoneile the Powers’ differences.