MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cabk Association.) BROKEN HILL. LONDON, Sept. 16. The Broken Hill junction mine is closing on September 24th. This makes the third mine in the Silver City to close, and with the miners of the other mines closed, it brings the total of the unemployed up to 1411. Other mines in Broken Hill are expected shortly to announce that they aiso are closing. SUGAR* STRIKERS RESUMING BRISBANE, Sept. 16. The. South Johnstone sugar strike trouble lias finally been settled. The men are now signing on, and work will be resumed at the beginning of next week, thus ringing down the curtain on a dispute which threatened to disrupt- the state of Queensland. BLACKBERRY PEST. IJONDON, Sept. 15. The Earnham Royal scientists are disappointed with the caterpillar on which they were relying to kill the blackberry plant, as they were found equally ready to eat raspberries and loganberries, and it is therefore not suitable. It is hoped to eliminate ragwort by the cinnabar. A WOMAN'S STRICTURES. GENEVA, Sept. 17. “I would like to kill men guilty of assaulting children,” declared Dame Edith Lyttelton, impassionately, before a committee discussing social vice. ‘‘lt is a disgrace that Britain punishes them less than forgers and thieves. The age of consent should be raised and licensed houses abolished, the position of women improved and more policemen employed. Even the most degraded women, Tlainc Lyttelton added, were intimidated by the presence of policewomen. and patrols. “No words are strong enough to denounce profiteers in vice and there is no length to which traffickers in human flesh will g'».” Khe hoped the 1928 Assembly would recommend, the strongest repressive legislation. PRESS VALUES. GENEVA. Kept. 10. IJiltou "Toting said Britain attached tlio highest importance to the result ol the Press Conference and paid a tribute to the manner in which tlio press spiced ,the knowledge of the League’s great* cause of peace. Referring tc criticisms of agencies, he said so far as England was concerned, far from be ini monopolies, there was a vehement, evei desperate competition. AN ELECTION ETGTIT. LONDON, Sept. 10. An election fight at Strabane. between Fiamio Failers and Cosgravites result ed in three being shot, one seriously. Candidates for the Irish election: comprise:—Government, 87; Fianm I Kail 88, Labour 28, E armors 20 National League and Independents 31