AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1927, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

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EM IGBATIOM METHODS. OTTAWA, February 12. The Canadian Immigration Department has warmly relied to criticisms by Commissioner Lamb, of the Salvation Army, who, in London, charged ( amula with inadequately supporting the Salvation Army’s immigration work.

The Department alleges' that the Arniv is collecting from the British boy settlers their first wages in Canada, and even more than the full amount that is jointly granted hv the Canadian and the British Governments, and that the hoys believe that they are indebted to the army for such monetary aid. The Department states that the Salvation Army’s immigration methods are less altruistic than is generally believed. and that they should he completely overhauled. MODERN AMAZONS. NICARAGUA. February 11. A battalion of women, formed and led hv a twenty-year-old girl, have assisted the Conservative force,s recently to recapture the town of Chinandega from the Liberal troops. Sixteen of the women were wounded in massing ammunition to the soldiers in the trenches. The leader is Natalie Garcia. She was shot in the breast, and is in a serious condition. Quaker in California. NEW YORK, Fob. 12. A message from Calexico. California, states several Imperial Calley towns were shaken by severe earthquakes ibis mo ruing. The chief damage reported here is the crashing in the streets of building cornices, that were wenkend by the New Year’s Day tremors. lesson in Wool trade. WASHINGTON. Fell. 11. Mr J. Walker, of the F.S.A. Department of Agriculture, research representative. will spend a year in Australia sind New Zealand studying wool production there, and lor the purpose ol aplying the practicable features to cooperate wool marketing in the United States.

Delegates from the leading co-opera-tive wool marketing associations, representing thirty-eight thousuicl American wool producers .met here with the Department of Agriculture to develop a government programme of research .service and educational work. Mr Walker said that the wool coming from Africa and Australjt threatened to dominate the American market. It was better graded, and it suited the mill requirements. The Americans wanted to know how these foreign producers produced their wool, and bow to meet the mills’ requirements, and how the product was merehfuidised.