General Items.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1915, Page 5

General Items.

LESS FOOTBALL URGED. Received July 20, 5.5 p.m. London, July 19. Mr. Tennant, in the House of Commons, in response to a request on the views of the Government about football, replied that although the measures taken in 1914 had not realised all that was desired, the results were in the main satisfactory. The Government looks confidently to those responsible to restrict matches in accordance with the strong public feeling. The Football Association baa decided that there shall he no Cup competitions or International inntche«, and no remuneration for players.

SINGLE ENGINES FOR AKR(». PLANKS.

Received July 20, 5.5 p.m. London, duly 19. Mr. Tennant stated further that General Henderson advocated duplicate engined aeroplanes, but provision for Bingle-engincd machines was more urgent. The government did not believe that multiple engines were more efficient. PURCHASE OK COTTON". Received July '2O, 5.5 p.m. London, July 20. Lord Robert Cecil said that seven hundred thousand pounds sterling bad been paid to purchase twenty-five American cotton shipments. NiATrONAL CONTROL OF MIKES UR«ED. Received July 20. 11.55 ■p.m. London, July 20. _ The Manchester Guardian suggests national control of all collieries, or those on the South Males eld only, which will terminate automatically after the war, the owners meanwhile to enjoy incomes baaed on the average profits of" the prosperous years preceding the vvar; also salaries if they manage their own pits. The workmen must tben accept compulsion as public, servants,, knowing that the profits were going to.the'country. It *was Impossible to treat a man woijk. ing for a private'employer as a transgressor of public law when he withholds his labor, • ,