LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

FUTURE OF ABORIGINES. CHANGE FOR BETTER HOPED. LONDON, Aug. 20. In commenting on the, decisions reached in consequence of the report by the Federal Minister for Home AffaiiA, Mr A. Blakeley, on aborigines, the Manchester Guardian suggests that something substantial may be done at last to atone for “one of the ugliest stories in the history of white civilisation.”

The Commonwealth Government’s reply to the charges of evil treatment is by no means wholly satisfactory, it is stated, but it means that the deplorable apathy displayed towards the problem of the aborigines is ended. LOWER TARIFFS ? MOVE IN JAPAN. KOBE, August 22. Following the agitation of the Foreign Chamber of Commerce here against the statement of the Minister for Railways (M. Tasuku Egi), that goods were made in Japan with foreign capital, not Japanese, Mr Jvmnosnke Inoue, Minister of Finance, definitely disielaimod 'and contradicted the theory, Mr Inoue said that he was considering the calling of an international round-table conference to discuss the lowering of tariffs, the only means of breaking the present deadlock in the world’s commerce and industry. Baron Shidehara, the Foreign Minister, is enthusiastically supporting the proposal.

BLIND WHILE STANDING. BUT NORMAL WHEN LYING. LONDON. Aug. 20. A special ambulance carrier awaited the arrival of the lU.M.’s Mongolia at Marseilles, in order to take. Mr B. Keith Cohen, a well-known Sydney solicitor, to Lausanne, where he will be treated by Dr Gonin for detachment of the retina. The' patient arrived safely, and is now under treatment, the arrangements for which were made by a radio telephone talk from Sydney to tire eye specialist, on the advice of London specialists. The extraordinary complaint from which Mr Keith Cbben is suffering results in his being totally blind when standing up. yet a.ble to see when on his back. The treatment for it, which it is understood, occupies about ten days, has been known only for a few years. Mr Cohen was suddenly so affected late in June, and lie sailed from Sydney bv the Mongolia, on July 9th. During the voyage, as for some weeks before his departure, he lay packed in sandbags to prevent movement, •It was explained by a medical man that the object of keeping the patient on his back is to prevent the affected retina from falling oyer the eye, and thus obscuring the sight. UNKISSED VIRGIN. GIRL’S ERROR.IN BAVARIA. BERLIN, Aug. 22. Given a visitor’s registration form when holidaying at Fuessen in. the Rhinelnnd, a girl jokingly filled in her profession as "chairwoman of the Society of Unkissed Virgins.” Not seeing the joke, the police fined her 6s for insulting the State of Bavaria, plus half a crown for spoiling the form.