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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1918, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

DEGREE IN COMMERCE. J t .. DIPLOMA IN TEXTILES. . DECREASED GOLD PRODUCTION. } i Received July 15, 5.5 p.m. ( London, July 14. The University of London has drafted i a scheme for instituting a degree in ] commerce. Meanwhile • the Leeds Uni- j versity has established a three years special diploma course in textiles, includ- ] ing economics and languages, the third j 'year to be spent at some colonial or foreign university. Sir Lionel Phillips, a member of the j Gold Committee, states that the cause of the decrease of gold production has been mainly due to the unfair system ■whereby the producers were paid at the pre-war rate, which now does not suffice c to procure the same amount of com- i jnodities. He does not advocate any i change in the standard price of gold, il but the loss in production ought to be made up in other ways, otherwise he i foresees a serious decrease.—Press As- f sociation. i i SOCIALISTS' VIEWS. ) HOHENZOLLERNS AND HAPSBURGS ' MUST BE BEATEN. ( Received July 15, 11.40 p.m. ] London, July 15. A pro-Ally Socialist demonstration at -j Trafalgar Square resolved, inter alia, opposing peace terms until the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs had suffered a military defeat, or were thrown off by . their own peoples, and demanding full compensation for German outrages and - devastation.—Reuter.