FARMERS AND THE SLUMP.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 7

FARMERS AND THE SLUMP.

HELP FROM CONGRESS. - LOANS OF 60,000,000 DOLLARS. (Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. President Wilson, replying to Senator Sutherland, who requested the President to take action to extricate farmers from their present predicament resulting from falling prices, pointed out that no laws existed enabling them to extend the necessary help. Senator Hitchcock announced that he will present a bill at the forthcoming meeting of Congress providing immediate loans of 60,000,000 dollars to aid agriculturists. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) LEAGTJE AS A SOLO-TON. _____ NEW YORK, December 3. The Washington correspondent of the United Press learns from Administration quarters that Mr. Wilson, in his message to Congress, may suggest the adoption of the League of Nations as the proper way to relieve the conditions confronting farmers as a result of falling prices.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) BOLSHEVIKS IN TURKESTAN. NATIONALISATION OF WOMEN. MOHAMMEDANS VNV_3___>. (Received 11.30 a.m.) DELHI, December 3. Advices from Turkestan state that the Bolsheviks have issued. a, proclamation ordering all women to register themselves for national service. Mohammedan women have also been forcibly unveiled. j

Bolshevik female orators are' urging women to desert their husbands Unless given full liberties. —(Reuter.)

"LIKELY TO SLUMP." AMERICAN TIMBER MARKET. EFFECT ON AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, November 23. Giving evidence before the Federal Public Accounts Committee to-day, Mr. H. T. Attenborough, timber manager for James Henty and Co., said that the American timber market was likely to slump, and this would nave the effect of greatly reducing the cost of building material in Australia. He did not think .prices would drop to pre-war rates, but there was a tendency to approach them. FLIGHT ACROSS AUSTRALIA. FIRST EAST TO WEST JOURNEY. (Received 9.30 a.m.) PERTH, this day. The aviator Degaris, with two mechanics, completed the first east to west journey across Australia. He left Melbourne on Tuesday morning and arrived in Perth at midday on Thursday, a distance of 2,169 miles, his time being 30h 27m.—(A and N.Z. Cable.) CHEESE FREIGHT INCREASE. AN EXORBITANT RATE. LONDON, December 3. A meeting of provision importers resolved that the increased freights demanded for cheese from New Zealand of l.d per lb, plus 10 per cent, ia exorbitant and unwarranted. It was decided that a deputation wait upon the Australasian Refrigerated Tonnage Committee to protest against the increase, and to ask tor a reduction.—(A and N.Z.) CLAIM TO AN ESTATE. IDLE AND RIDICULOUS.

LONDON, December 3.

Mr. Justice Astbury has granted Collingwood, -who claims to be the owner, iby purchase, of Woodlands, an injunction; restraining Petty, a claimant, from trespassing. Mr. Justice Astbury pointed, out that the will disposing of the property had been proved in open court Petty's claim was idle and ridiculous. He advised him to leave the property alone, or he might get into trouble.—(A and N_. Cable.)

A message received a few dayß ago statist that a romantic Chancery suit was to be commenced concerning a freehold estate at Lewisham, England, called Woodlands, worth £20fi00. One of the claimants, named Petty, returned recently from .Australia, where he prqspected in West Australia and was a dentist at Fremantle. He found Woodlands in possession of a draper named Collingwood, who claimed the legal right to it, having paid £3000 for it. Petty asserted that Collingwood's deeds were forged, and that he himself held the original deeds. He seized a portion of the property and refused to be ejected.