BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18855, 22 June 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

UNEMPLOYED EX-SOLDIERS. INSURANCE SCHEME FORESHADOWED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (United Service.) LONDON, June 20. Dr Mocnamara. in a speech in London, stated that 167,000 ex-service men were still without work. The Government intended to immediately legislate providing unemployment insurance for an additional 8,000,000 workers. ARTIFICIAL WOOL. CONTINENTAL PRODUCT TESTED. (The Times.) LONDON, June 19. Profesor Midgley, of Bradford Technical College, has tested samples of artifioal wool from the Continent, which have been claimed to be a possible serious rival to the ordinary worsted qualities. He found the artificial material lacking in strength and elasticity, inferior even to low qualitywools. Professor Midgley admits that artificial wool is capable of limited separate use or combined with other materials, but the resultant cloth will resemble shoddy.

IMMODESTY OF FASHION. CLERICAL PROTESTS. (United Service.) LONDON. June 19. The Archbishop of Melbourne, addressing a Mothers’ Union at Westminster, spoke against the present mode of scanty costumes. He condemned farmyard morals and motherhood shirkers. The Daily Mail makes a feature of Father Untomine’s refusal to marry a bride at New Orleans because her dress degraded the sacrament of matrimony. The priest ordered the lights to be lowered and dismissed the party without i-erforming the ceremony.