NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1929, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

PLEDGES TO PEACE. “No one who hopes to see the movement for civilisation in international dealings, that is, the movement against war, hacked by the untrammelled and unhesitating vigour off America, will give way either to impatience or to complacency. It would he easy to take common hopes and common detestations as they are to he found in every civilised land and to make light of the difficulties that, naturally and invaraibly, beset their reduction to the terms of common action. Out when nations and governments approach each oilier in the cordial and generous tone of President Hoover’s commentary, negotiators will find themselves -hallway through their business at its beginning. So far as the help of the British Empire is needful to success in that High and honourable ambition, it may he taTcen as pledged already.’—“Times” (London). THE FOUNDATION OK HOPE. “ Over the broad planes of Eastern and Central Europe, with their numerous new and highly nationalistic states, brood the offended shades ol Beter and Frederick the Great and the memories of the wars they waged. Russia. seJf-outcast, sharpens her bayonets in her Arctic night, and miechanicalil.v proclaims through sellstarved lips her philosophy of hatred and death. But since Locarno, Hope rests on a surer foundation. The period of repulsion from the horrors df war will he long-lasting; and this blessed interval the great nations may take their forward steps to world organisation with the conviction tnat the difficulties they have yet to master will not be greater than those they have already overcome.” —Mr Winston Churchill, in “The World Crisis: Ihe Aftermath.” EARLY CLOSING IN BRITAIN. “The woes of the individual who now and then forgoes a kipper at supper time or must wait till dawn for his butterscotch cannot lie made to overbalance the general sum df better health, greater self-respect, ' and increased recreation of the crowds of workers who now pour out of the cities at a time when there is still something of the day left for them to enjoy. To. limit hours of employment entirely by regulations for the individual, instead of by the closing of shops and the icgulation df trading, would he infinitely more complicated and more costly to the State. It may he pleaded tlial shopkeepers employing no assistant? should have freedom to sell both kip pel's and coughdrops all round tin clock if they wish to do so, but such license would not only lead to easil.v imaginable family slave-driving, bill would unfairly drain custom from the regulated assistant employing shop and react on the wages df the assist, ants. ... It is scarcely in the Britis' character to allow the occasional with holding of kippers and coughdrops tendanger a great principle of freeloin.”—'London “Evening Standard,” referring to criticism, of the recen Shop Hours Act. 1/ A MILE ATR TAXIS. A plea to make Hamvorth Aerodrome the “Brooklands of the Air” and an air taxi centre has been outlined by Lieut. Col. T. A. EL Edwards, formerly chief technical adviser of civil aviation at the Air Ministry. “The name of the company which is being formed will he National Flying Services Services, Ltd.,” said Colonel Edwards. “It is intended to make Hanwoirth Aerodrome, which covers 230 acres, the centre. There arc two fields and a country club. One of the fields will he used by air taxis, which at Is a mile, will carry a passenger with small baggage anvwliero, and can he chartered at a moment’s notice. Sixteen light aeroplanes will he stationed at Hanw.ortli to begin with. Air meetings, tests, and demonstration flying will also he held there. We shall have six instructors.”