MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON THEATRICAL VAGARIES. LONDON. February 16. I lie actress -Miss Evelyn Laye (engaged to replace another' actress) lias decided she must adhere to her agreeim ol to play "Princess Charming”, tlie managers holding her to her contract. BRITISH .UR POLICY TOWARDS AUSTRALIA. LONDON. February ]G. Though it is considered it will be at least two years Indore the new airships arc likely to voyage to Australia, the Air .Ministry is anxious to have null urological data completed as quickly as possible, a tendency lias arisen among the advocates of the airships to conclude tliai certain masts should be erected at Darwin. Sydney. .Melbourne, and Perth, but the Air .Ministry’s preliminary meteorological survey, as outlined at the Imperial Conference, delim’teiv limited the masts to Perth and Mel bourne, as offering the most stable conditions. It is expected the delegation to be sent out will endorse this, alter which it is Imped Air Bruce will indicate the extent Australia will cooperate in preparatory work, and also in the erection of masts.

Si.('.MR IX WOOL TRADE. LOXDOX. February 16. Tile present vogue of knitted 'foods nml id the short, sinnll skirt was one o| the laetors in the depression of the worsted trade, said Air Wood (.Secretary ol the Woollen and Worsted Trades r'cderat ion) in tin? course of a panel 1 helore the Royal Statistical Society. 1 lie wool industry did not usually meet depression by discharging trained work people, but by slan t time. I he imre ligtires of the unemployment, therefore, did not tell the v, hole late ol the depression. Reckoning the decline, both in the numbers employed and in tin ir average earnings, the wool textile industry as a whole showed a 2b per cent, reduction in 11)20. compared with .May, IP2T. I his depression had lasted for three years, and it showed no signs of lifting. Tin re were *l".d00 fewer persons employed in woollen and worsted manufacturing last year than in 1020, but an extra nineteen thousand were employed in the hosiery section.

( LEV KB FORGERS. LONDON, February 10. For the cleverest note forgeries ol rcicnt years. Arthur Southgate was senu-need to seven years' penal servitude. ami Fred Green to ten years, at the .Manchester Assizes. It was stated that 10'to forged Treasury notes had actually been traced to the aceusrd. who must have manufactured several thousands. A diary kept In- one of the prisoners slowed that they had worked in over fifty Li whs. distributing notes which, an expert states, were the best forgeries lie had seen in his thirty-three years experience. The nolice state that many of the notes have actually passed through the Bunk of England. .Mr Justice Wright confessed that lie could not himself distinguish between the forged and the genuine notes.