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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1928, Page 2

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DUMPING OF KEROSENE. INDIAN TARIFF BOARD’S REPORT. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, September 12.

The India Office issued a statement regarding the report- of the Indian Tariff Board on the oil industry. The statement says: “The Tariff Board was directed to investigate the question, of safeguarding the oil industry in India from the injury inflicted by the sale of imported kerosene at prices below world parity. A majority of the hoard finds that sale at prices below world parity has been established. Dumping, too, has been established, not by the companies against which complaint was made, but by groups working in close alliance with the principal Indian producers. It was disclosed also at the inquiry that the Burma Oil Company bad undertaken to make good to other Indian members of the pool the remainder of their losses, as measured by the difference between Indian and Chinese prices. .“in- face of the agreements it would have been impossible for the Government of India to consider granting public assistance to the companies which arc members of the pool. As the price war has now ended, it is unnecessary to arrive at a conclusion on the question whether other companies should he safeguarded, hut the Government of India sees 'no reason for rejecting the considered opinion of tlio board that no ease has been made out for safeguarding any company. The Government of India accepts the finding of the board that petrol is not likely to be imported into India on a considerable scale for the next two years, and no action is called for.”

BRITISH INDUSTRY. AS EFFICIENT AS ANY IN,THE WORLD. RUGBY; September 12. At the meeting of tlio British Association, in the economic section, a- suggestion that British industry is suffering from inferior management/ and organisation by comparison with representative industries in America was discussed and dismissed as groundless. The president of the section, Professor Alleyne Young, who came to London Unviersity from Harvard University, declared that he could find nothing to indicate that British industry, seen against the background of its own problems and its own possibilities, was less efficiently organised or less ably directed than American industry or the industry of any other country. It could command organising ability second to none in the world.

COMPETITION KILLED. RUGBY, Sept. 12. Amerioan and Welsh tin plate manufacturers have signed an agreement allocating the world’s tin plate market. It is announced at Swansea that the object- of the agreement is to secure, if possible, a- freedom of the United States from .Welsh Competition in certain markets where Americans hold large capital investments in the local packing industry, while the European export market is secured to South Wales from American competition, and the United States gets' a. priority claim over Sooth American and Canadian markets. Referring to an inclination to fear that this pact is playing into the hands of Germany, it is' stated that .a similar agreement is being arranged with that country.

the glacial age. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. RUGBY, September 12. Although many of the papers read, and the discussion of distinguished scientists assembled at the British Association meetings at Glngow, are highly technical, others have considerable interest to laymen. In the anthropology section two interesting discoveries are announced. Dr. Ritchie, Curator of the National Museum in Edinburgh, described finding the first record of paleolithic man in Scotland, which showed that Scotland had been inhabited for long periods during the later stages of tbe glacial period, and Professor Armstrong described tbe discovery of an engraved bone in Derbyshire, on which is depicted a human figure standing erect, apparently in an attitude of ceremonial dancing. This is tlie first paleolithic represen- 1 tation of human figures found in Britain. It recalls finds made in France and Spain.