WHY NOT EMPIRE BEEF FOR ENGLAND?

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 May 1927, Page 15

WHY NOT EMPIRE BEEF FOR ENGLAND?

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HULL SEEKS TRADE VISITOR TO DOMINIONS (From Our Oicn Correspondent.') SYDNEY, May 20. The question of why the British Empire does not practice internal interchange of trade, particulary in the matter of feeding the people of Great Britain, has been revived again by Major H. Shenton Cole, of the London ind North-Eastern Railway, who has come to Australia with a mission, narruly to incr< as • trade between Australia and New Zealand and England particularly as it affects the port of Hull. Major Cole will short y visit New Zealand, which country he gives praise to, for having established a steady trade in mutton and lamb, of world renown. This, however, he states, does not meet the problem of feeding Great Britain w.th Empire grown foods. The beet resources o ' the Empire should be developed, so that in time of war there would be no stoppage of supplies. By shipping to Hull, Major Cole claims that the Dominions would fight outside competition in a market which is scarcely touched by New Zealand or Australian shippers, though it serves an industrial population of 12,000,300. WOMEN CLAIM EQUAL RIGHTS Some stirring speeches have been made by delegates to the triennial conference of the Federation of Women’s Societ es for Equal Citizenship which has been held in Sydney this week. One speaker declared that men might scoff, but the time was coming when they would hear the thunder of the marching women, pressing on to the goal cf equality of the sexes. Even the black gins of the aborigines arconcluded in the scope of the federation’s efforts, in the direction of protecting them against white men. Women in Australia do not enjoy as many privileges or rights in law, as the New Zealand women do, and taken all round the legislation protecting women and children here is not so extensive as in New Zealand. A mere man who was present at the conference declares that the fairer :;ex is lacking in initiative and thus is handicapped. To illustrate this he told how he had seen one of the. most militant of the speakers waiting outside a closed door, when all she had to do was to push it and it would have opened. She thanked him very graciously when he opened it for her. SOUVENIRS OF CANBERRA Hundreds of pounds worth of damage is said to have been done at Canberra by souvenir hunters, who took anything they could lay hands on, even the flags of the decorations being taken and hidden away. Notepaper from Parlic mentary rooms was swiftly exhausted. also electric light switches and bulbs and all other portable articles in sight. At the hotels a special watch had to be kept on the spoons. Had the imaginations of the looters run riot a little they could have made a startling coup by taking 500 ornamental trees which lined the avenues down which the Duke and Duchess drove to the White House. These trees had no roots; in fact, they were simply the tops of saplings, chopped off and stuck in the ground to look like trees. They kept fresh, in the cool, rainy weather, till the party broke up, when they were thrown out. FOOTBALLERS FROM ALL POINTS Footballers from New Zealand, China and Cze«'ho-Slakia arrived in Sydney tips week; when a team comes from Timbuktu, some surprise may be expressed, but this city has not even raisec'. an eye-brow so far at the coincidence of footballers from such widely-separated lands as these meeting here. In fact, the only remark made about them is that the “Czechos” •re a new crowd. We have had the Chinese before. and the New Zealanders as footballers are an everlasting thorn in the flesh, to be borne with stoicism. A surprising fact has been mentioned by the new' consul for Czechoslovakia, who arrived last week, and that is that soceer is the national game In the and which dates its history back beyond the days of the blind king of Bohemiii who went into battle, tie. THE GREAT BRIDGE GROWS To-day workmen are knocking down the wooden trestles used to support during construction the first span of the Sydney Harbour bridge, where it crosses the tram-lines at Dawes Point. The first mass of steel is thus supporting itself, while another span is almost completed. Work is proceeding on both sides harbour, and by the end of the year a start will be made with the 1,500 ft. span which will cross the narrow' waterway at a height sufficient to clear the tallest masts. This great curve of steel will rise higher than the lighthouse at South Head." and when the bridge is completed and brightly illuminated it will be seen by approaching ships at a distance of many miles. The span is to be built, out from both titles. steel cables supporting the weight till the two halves meet and are rivet ted together. Dr. Brudfield, the engineer in charge is a Queenslander, and he is full of faith in the possibilities of being able to work at the bridge on all but the windiest days of winter. FILM STAR WINNER FOR HOLLYWOOD To-morrow Miss Phyllis Gibbs sails by tie Sierra for Hollywood to be tried °ut as a movie queen in the city of films. This city has given her a good send-off and will be there in hundreds to push the liner off, while the object °f their admiration smiles from the bridge where Captain Trask will take ber to see her friends on the wharf. It was a sister ship, the Sonoma, which carried Miss Australia away to ber victories, and now' the same girl " touring Australia with a movie programme and drawing £IOO a weeK to come on” in costume and say a few r words. If Phyllis Gibbs gets to the Point of starring in a picture, it will have a great run in Australia, w’here ever one is loyal to anything or anyone that is Australian. —WILL LAWSON.