AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

THE NEXT CONFERENCE. <Per Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHIGTON, June 29. A representative of Britain, in a statement said: “I should like to see Mr Ramsay MacDonald call the next naval conference, because the last two were called by President Coolidge. The quicker that a conference is called the better it will be for all concerned, and, above all things, a careful avoidance of the League of Nations’ PreCommittee will be necessary, if ultimate agreement is desired.

CANADIAN PLANE CRASHES OTTAWA, June 21. Captain the Hon. J. C. Jervis, the elder son of Lord St. Vincent and formerly A.D.O. to Viscount Willingd)o!n, Governor-General of Canada, along with two companions, Doctor William Morris, and Pilot C. S. Caldwell, were instantly killed when their seaplane crashed on the St. Lawrence River. CANADIAN PREFERENCES. OTTAWA, June 21. A message from Palmerston, Ontario, states that referring to British preferences, which current political gossip says it - will be the policy of the Liberal Government to extend, Conservative Loader Bennett, in a speech here said: Blankets’ preference to such as those accorded Australia and New Zealand out of the question. No preference should bo given which would adversely affect any Canadian industry It was true patriotism and true Imperialism to .recognise that a factory in Canada was as much an asset to the Empire as a factory' in Yorkshire.