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HUGE NATIONAL WORKS, Toll .absorb all unemployment Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. London, May 23. Mr- Home, replying in the House of Commons debate regarding the unemployed demobilised soldiers, declared that industries had re-absorbed 81 per cent, of the demobilised soldiers. Most of the employers had kept their pledges to reinstate soldiers. Unemployment was de-~ creasing. The Government would shortly provide work on an unexampled scale, including 200,000 houses, spending £7,500,000 on repairing roads, £2,500,000 on gas and waterworks schemes, and £15,000,000 on other schemes sanctioned, I —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
BRITAIN'S LOANS TO ALLIES. NO INTEREST PAID AND NO PRINCIPAL REPAID. Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. London, May 29. The Chancellor of the Exchequer states that the Allies' obligations to Britain total £1,508,000,000. No interest had been paid, except in respect to minor sums, but the interest charged was mostly o per cent., except Russia, which was 0 per cent. Belgium's and Serbia's was nil.
A White Paper shows that Britain's! loans to the Allies during the four years ended March, 1918, totalled £1,208,000,000, of which nothing had been repaid. The loans to the Dominions were £ 192,000,000. —Aus- N.Z, Cable Assoc. Received June 8, 11.5 p.m. London, May 29. Mr. Austen Chamberlain stated that Britain's! nett debt to Ameritja was 4,050,000,000 dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
BARRING ENEMY ALIENS. London, May 27. Mr. Massey said that for a century enemy aliens would not be allowed to settle in New Zealand. If Britain did not act similarly the war sacrifices.' would be largely in vain, London, May 27. An Order-in-Council is proposed to empower immigration officers to refuse aliens permission to land in the United Kingdom, especially paupers, lunatics, discjaßed perrons, and convicts.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
LAND FOR EX-SOLDIERS. Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. London, May 28. Lord Ernie, in the House of Lords, stated that 12,000 ex-service men had applied for land, whereof 10,000 were approved. Of the 120,000 acres needed 35,000 had already been acquired. Negotiations were proceeding respecting 90,000 acres. It was difficult to get possession of land before Michaelmas, 1920, unless compensation was paid to the tenants.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
THE POLICE FORCE. Received June 8, 5.5 p.m. London, June 0. In the House of Commons Mr. Shortt said the police must have a representative body with full power to make representations to the Government, but no policeman would be allowed to belong to any trade union. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A DUKE "GETTING OUT." London, Juno 3. The Duke of Abercorn is selling his estates in Ireland and is emigrating to South Africa. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TROOPS MUTINY. London, June 8. Fifteen hundred troops from Egypt refuted to be quarantined at Plymouth because the civilian passengers we™ allowed ashore. A meeting resulted in the dispersal of the troops—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.
DIRIGIBLE ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. London, May 29. The dirigible R34 has been handed over to the Admiralty and will attempt the Transatlantic flight within a fort-night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assp. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. Ottawa, June 7. A new immigration law prohibits the the entry, and provides for the deportation of, I.W.W. members, anarchists, Bolsheviks and enemies of the constituted Government.—Aus. and N,Z. Cable Assoc.
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