BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TKf.KCIItAPH PEH J’IIKSS ASSOCIATION.] LABOUR PROTEST. LONDON. April 0. The Trade Union Congress has issued a manifesto. In which it denounces the now Trades Union Bill as “a violent assault on the workers' rights, and a violent, outrageous denial <>l the principles and practices to which the Trades Unions have legally been entiled to for half a century." The manifesto slates: “This Bill strikes at the living spirit of Trades Unionism, and it must he fought, line by line, inside and outside of Parliallien. It is the signal of a class war." WAR OFFICE SUPPLIES. LOXDOX. April 7. The War Office i's inviting tenders for (.070 ton.- ol frozen liecf, and .'ISO .oils of mutton, deliverable at Egypt. Malta, and Gibraltar, fortnightly during the six months ending Xovember. and partly during the year ending aiay. 1028. Tenders close on April 28lh.

1 Bissau anticipates South Americans will again under-cut the Australians in the Admiralty canned beef contract (cabled on April sth), hut owing to vigorous Empire propaganda lie is hopeful that Australia will secure the a wa rd.

Sir .1. Parr visited an excellent, exhibition of New Zealand prize lamb- a’ Cuniioks, Malyielione. t lie largest retail shop in Loudon, where lot) carcase' from Longhtirn. Wellington Meat Export and Hawke's Hay Company are displayed. Experts present said they had not seen such symmetrical, excellent lam!) for three years. EED E HAL REPR ES E X TATI VE. (Received this day at 12.25 mm.) LONDON. April 7. Sir .). Cook has been instructed to retain office till Ryrie arrives. LOXDOX. April 7. The Commonwealth has nominated Collins to succeed Coghlan on the Pacific Cable Board. MARCONI COY. LONDON. April 7. Marconi’s English Shareholders Association decided to oppose proposals for a reduction of capital when they come before the Court,, cabled on March 10th. A RECORD FLY. BERLIN, April 7. The German aviator, Horn, flying in a Junker three-engined aeroplane currying a thousand kilograms flew 2020 kilometers in 870 minutes, a record. A GANG'S OPERATIONS. PARIS, April 7. A gang of foreign speculators including two Russians and two Letts utilising an unlicensed wireless set, transmitted false exchange (imitations to Berlin. Amsterdam and Russia. It is reported they made a profit oi several million francs on the l.aUiun rouble alone. The authorities propose to expel them. The French post office is instituting proceedings. PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPHS. LOXDOX. April 7.

Their Majesties have accepted a set of the Government publicity photographs of the ) oi k's visit to New Zealand, presented by Sir J. Parr. A WOMAN'S VI FAYS. [Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. April 7. ” It is a humiliating slur to suggest that British women are useful in the Dominions as domestics.” said Aliss Waleman. founder of the Empire League for Overseas Settlement, addressing Soroptiinists Club. She complained they were only . invited to migrate as domestics, for which women of the British professional classes were wholly unfitted and it was detrimental to British prestige, as domestic workoverseas was three times as heavy as iu England. “It makes my blood boil to see American women limiting in luxurious wealth and sneering at gentle-bred, middle-class British women working over the border iu Canada as domestic drudges.”