BRITISH & FORDISM NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FORDISM NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

GILBEY DIVORCE LONDON, March 23. The jury found Sir Walter Gilhey guilty ol both misconduct and cruelty, and granted Lady Gilhey a divorce. LOSS ON DYE STUFF CONTROL. LONDON, March' 23. .justice Cave lias granted the petition of British Dye Stuffs Corporation lor a reduction of capital by £4,521,020 sterling of which £2,841,000 is written off as lost, while £1,580,000 will bo returned in cash to certain shareholders. The Government will receive six hundred thousand in return for shares, seventeen hundred thousand of which they are surrendering. Iho Government will also relinquish all the Government's control of the coy. His Lordship observed that this control had cost the country £1,100.000. CUNARD UNE CHANGE. LONDON, March 23 The “Daily Express” understands that tile Canard liners Alaunin, Lancastria, Tuscania. Caronia, and Carmania, will make London their homo port instead of Liverpool, beginning in April.

FRANCE A HIVE OF INDUSTRY

LONDON, March 24

The “Daily Chronicle's” world trade series of articles, discussing post-war France, insists on the importance of the technical revolution there, including electrification. Thus, Lens was reduced to ruins in the war, and tho present renaissance of Lens is typical of the renaissance of all French industrialism. Bits have been completely reconstructed, and the output is approaching the pre-war level. A villago is built round each pit. Some of tlio villages are planned on. garden-suburb lines. The equipment is most up-to-date, with the electrical energy generated on the siiot, the machines there including an electrical coal-extracting contrivance. There arc now no ugly dumps to scar the landscape. Special attention is paid to the manufacture of syutheanimonia. for agriculture. It is expected that, in two years, Franco will he independent of the importation of nitrates for fertilisation. As the result of using modern pulverising plants, 25 per cent, is saved in tho fuel bill. Ten thousand communes are now provided with electricity, an increase of four thousand since the war. As her coal reserves are relatively small, Franco is developing her so-call-ed “white” coal. Slue is harnessing her waterfalls and rivers, which are capable off giving six million horso power, a quarter of which is now in use. The drift af the peasants to tlio towns is causing anxiety, but hopes of electrification will also result in tho revival of rural industries.