MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1926, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] TRADE UNION OPINION. LONDON, Feb. 1!). Trade U'liion opinion is crystallising against tlio industrial alliance cabled on 6th November. Miners, Transport Workers Society, Engineers and Electricians Trade Unions with a membership of a million still favour an alliance. but Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union. National Union of Railwayman Federation, and Engineering Shipbuilding definitely decided against the alliance and the executive of the boilermakers society have given the members of the Board a hint to reject the scheme. It is expected that Cook’s project will now be abandoned, but miners, transport workers and electricians may decide in favour of a smaller alliance hoping the other unions will Inter change their minds. air. TROPHY. LONDON. Fell. 19. The Roval Aero Club awarded Cobham the Brittania trophy for 1925, adjudging the (light to Lidia and bae.t wilh Sir Blanker the most meritorious performance by a British airman dining the year. A MEDICO'S OPINIONS. LONDON. Feb. 19.

Sir A rbnth not bane, lecturing before the Clinical Society declared the question whether civilisation was a failure always arose when people considerc its disastrous effect on natives. Merchant .seamen taught natives to drink to excess. They also disseminated disease. Missionaries introduced the moral code 'causing degradation. The native was infinitely a finer animal than the civilised. His men

are great fighters and skilful hunters. His women produced vigorous healthy children. The study of birth control and eugenics was distinct irom the methods of civilisation. On the contrary the British people were enslaved because the authorities insisted that their ignorance of eugeiihs on certain lines of treatment, resulting in the production of weak children.

HERMAN SPORT ENTRIES. LONDON, Feb. 19. Herman entries will probably he accounted lor at the .luhilcv Tennis tournament at Wimbledon. According to ollirials who jpaivatcly wolcome the idea it should lie a foregone conclusion that when Germany enters the League of Nations, yachtsmen will follow the tennis association's lead. It is pointed out that vn< litsmen at present arc alette in drawing the line at German entries. AIR ESTIMATES. LONDON, Feh. 19. ’flic "Daily Mail’’ forecasts the air estimates will total sixteen millions sterling tin increase of seven hundred thousand compared with 1920, hut a reduction of four millions on the expansion programme introduced in 1923. owing to the economy policy. FARMERS PROTEST. LONDON. February 19. The Council of the National Farmers’ Union carried a resolution protesting to the .Ministry of Agriculture that the State-aided emigrant docs not help unemployir put, since the emigrant is mainly drawn from classes which are not liable to unemployment and demanding the immediate reconsideration of a settlement policy to prevent ratepayers' money being used to the detriment of Home agricultural interests.

The resolution was inspired by a communication from Warwickshire depreciating Canadian emigration officials canvassing agricultural workers to profit by the recently reduced passage rates to Canada.

AFRICAN ECONOMIC COMMISSION CAPETOWN. February 19.

'! he Economic Commission reported that the only point of agreement in majority and minority reports is the

necessity for arresting migration t towns. Tiie majority report recoil mends the Government to undertake

complete' survey of the economic position of native people, ft expresses the "pinion that tlie first apprehension in reflat'd t" the future of the white worker is the competition of the native which will be falsified if South Africa continues to develop national resources on economic .principles. Secondly, the Ltirpocnit has less to fear from im-

provement than Irom deterioration of the economic status of the native. Ihirdly. contact between native and European has lasted too lone and their economic co-operation is too intimate and well-established lor the exclusion of the native from European areas and European industries. The Commissioners declare the substitution of whites lor natives in the "old mines is not an economic proposition. It would he a sounder policy for the Government to employ a proportion of its share of the profits Irom the "oh! industry in developing other forms ol production in the country rather than inducing a huge number of whites to make their livelihood dependant on the industry. They are of opinion the exclusion of East (oast natives is unnecessary CREW RESCUED. M'.W YORK, February IfJ. The American steamer .Java Crow reports having rescued thirteen starving sailors aboard tbo Japanese freighter Tnishin Marri, dritfing helplessly after a storm in mid-Paeilie. Nineteen others who took to the lifeboats are believed to he dead.

A POO 1C FOUNT). \TC rOI!TA 'British Columbia), February If). il'o missing Zimmerman story, “Travels of Captain James Cook in the South Seas. ' was located some time ago in Switzerland. Cecil French, of \ ietoria. arrived from Europe hut presented a provincial museum hook published at Alnnheim. in IP7.T, written by Henry Zimmerman, vvlm accompanied Cook in his travels. Cook was the first Initis]] seamen to land at Vancouver fsland. The existence of the hook had been doubted by .students of Pacific north-west history. BPS DRIVER FIXED. V EI.I.fXOTOX. February 20. I.ionel Edward Campbell was prosecuted for attempting to cross the railway at Petone with his motor ’bus when the lino was not clear. Counsel for the Railway Department stated the Crossing was a dangerous one and doIcndant did not take the necessary precautions. The engine driver had complained that he had to applv the emergency brakes to avoid defendant’s litis, which was crowded with passengers and it collision was averted only by a lev seconds. A railway inspector gave et idenot'd that there was a distance ot two hundred yards wherein anyone appioaohing the crossing could see an advancing train. Magistrate Page imposed a fine of £lO. He said Campbell did not take reasonable precautions. A man in his position must carry out his responsibility to the public.