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Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1926, Page 3

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[by TELEGRAPH—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, June 4. The following news items were broad- , pasted from the New York “Times” building by the Australian Press Association and picked up by -Mr Shrimpton junr. WASHINGTON, June 1. By a vote of 230 to 11L the House of liepresentalives approved of the Wat Debt agreement negotiated between the United States and France. Tlie agreement, which provides that Franco slinll pay United States 0847 million dollars over a period of 02 years, nowgoes on to the Senate. The vote of that body will be withheld pending the approval of the agreement by the French Parliament, CHICAGO, June 3. The poll of students in twenty-seven representative American colleges and universities conducted under the allsp'.cies of the Proportional Representation League and Professor R. L. Mott, political scientist, shows that twentytwo per cent, of those voting arc dis- | satisfied with the present prohibition situation, and more than fifty-three per cent, favour a modification or repeal of the prohibition law. NEW YORK, June I. Reports are current that France will soon obtain a large international loan or credit amounting to possibly three hundred million dollars. It is not, however, expected such financing will he arranged until the French debt settlement is ratified. It is announced the Canadian Minister of Finance intends to ask authorisation for a loan of one hundred and fifty million dollars.