AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

VIEWS ON AUSTRALIAN

TRADE

/United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright. ]

WASHINGTON, April 18,

The former Trade Commissioner, Mr Baldwin, who assumed the office of Assistant Chief of the Automotive Division of the Department of Commerce, in a discussion on Australian conditions said: “The character of America’s export trade to Australia is changing, and will probably continuine to change, because of the . increasing industrialisation of the country. Furthermore, when the benefits of industrialisation become more apparent, and the present economic difficulties are overcome, the enhanced power of the Australian people will open new opportunities for the sale of American products. Potentially Australia is a wealthy country, wi u.i a greater population required to exploit its wealth. It should become a more important market for exports.

JERSEY CATTLE,

MONTREAL, April 17,

Six high-class Canadian bred Ayrshire bulls are in a shipment of Jersey cattle selected by A. H. Weir and Fred Mills, officers of the N.Z. Ayrshire Breeders’ Assn, for the purpose of improving the dairy herds, leave Halifax in the Canadian Constructor on April 25th.

CATHOLICS IN U.S,

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 18. The newest Catholic directory shows the 'Catholic population of United States is twenty millions.

ELEVEN BANKS FAIL

WASHINGTON. April. 18

An Indianapolis report states eleven banks failed in the last fortnight in Marion County, Illinois, due to the slackness of coal mining, because fuel oil and other substitutes caused a depression in the industry.

MOTOR BOAT RECORD

WASHINGTON, April 18

At Miami Beach, Gar Wood established a new world record for motor boats of 96.25 miles an hour, with the latest boat, Miss America VII.I. Perfect weather favoured Wood on the Indian Creek course, the surface of which was almost as smooth as a mirror. <