BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

THE LONGER HOURS BILL. LONDON, July 30

Hi the House of Lords, Lord Banbury’s motion to reject the second reading of the miners’ eight hours bill was negatived by 53 votes to If.

CAREERS FOB AY IVES. AMSTERDAM, July 33.

The question, of how a woman can marry and still keep her career was discussed at the conference of university women, which has opened here. Mrs Gilbreth. said that she believed that the woman who was completely satisfied was the only one who had both a. career and a home. She said that young men and women about to be married should learn how to plan out their lives, and how to run home., ns they would run businesses, allotiugto each member individual tasks. Doctor Elizabeth Baker, of Columbia University, said that long training for their life-work had not yet become the 'philosophy of women. She described the progress of nursery schools where the care of children in the absence of their parents was carefully studied. The discussion was adjourned. Interviewed after the debate by a representative of the ‘‘Daily Express,” Airs Whyte, a New Zealand delegate, said: “We do not encourage women to work in my country. They should not tlo so, unless it becomes necessary.”

A French delegate said that women worked in France because it was economically necessary, but it was not a good tiling. Doctor Ramsdndt, a delegate from Sweden, said that there was an increase in the number of n.avriej women working in Sweden, hut sometimes these marriages were failures. BRITISH AIR- FORCE SMASH. LONDON, July 30. The utility of parachutes was ibus trated in a- collision of two British Air Force aeroplanes at a height of one thousand feet at Andover. Both pilots parachuted safely to earth, cue being injured. Both aeroplanes were wrecked. SPAIN AND THE LEAGUE. MADRID, July 30. The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs states: “If Germany, as reported. is disposed to favour concessions to Spain, the September meeting of the League of Nations may see the solution of the difficulty of the permanent scats, to one of which Spain still aspires.” KOREAN POLITICAL PRISONERS. TOKYO, July 30. Tvaneko, the wife of the Korean who recently received a life sentence on a charge of attempting to assassinate the Emperor, has committed suicide in prison. , !