OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1929, Page 5

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

MOND-TURNER REPORT.

IMPORTANT DEPARTURE MADE

(British Official Wireless.)

. S RUGBY, February 14. In connection with tlie rejection of 1 the proposals of the Mond-Turner report by the employers’ organisation importance is attached to the invitation extended hv tlie employers’ organisations tp the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to attend a conference to examine the question of usefully consulting together upon mat ter.s of common interest to British industry.

“The Times” says:—The positive effect of the reply is to open the door for the first time to discussions of any kind between the leading national organisations of employers and the national organisations of trade unions 'j his therefore, represents an importk ant new departure.” ML GARRISONS IN CHINA. MOVEMENTS OF BATTALIONS.

RUGBY, Feh. 14.

Advice has been received in London that the second Battalion of the Scots Guards, which left Shanghai last month in the troopship City of Marseilles. JLve just passed Aden. They are duo at Southhampton on February 27. • The revised distribution of British troops in China and Hong-Kong provides for a garrison of seven battalions, namely—two battalions at Shanghai. t"'o at Ticn-tsin. three at Hong-Kong. The Second Wilshires will join the First Noffolks in Shanghai about the and of February. The First Battalion /of"the Bedford and Hertfordshire Regiuients will leave Hong-Kong on that date'and the Third Queens will leave on March 2. leaving as garrison nr Hong-Kong the Second King’s Own Scottish Borderers. First Somersets, and one Indian battalion. The Tien-tsiii garrison will remain a* at present, consisting of- the Second Border Regiment and Second Royal Scots.