GOODS WITHDRAWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 7

GOODS WITHDRAWN.

Record Clearances From Bond. TARIFF INFORMATION LEAK. (Received 11.30 a.m.) CANBERRA, this day. So great -were the clearances from bond last week that Customs collections reached the record amount of £2,266,917. Some concern is said to prevail in official circles regarding the apparent leakage of tariff information, resulting in heavy withdrawals of goods from bond, coincidentallv with the decision to table the new schedule duties. "SLOW DOWN." Religious Persecution in Russia. ORDERS OF SOVIET. (" Times " Cables.) (Received 0 a.m.) RIGA, March 16. The Russian Communist party's central committee has sent urgent telegrams to its provincial committees tellfncr them to abandon violence against peasants throughout the country because it is discrediting the Soviet. Also the provincial committees have been ordered to "slow down" the religious persecution of the peasants and onlv to close churches where it is the wish of the majority of the inhabitants that they should do so. This change of policy is owing to the dangerous temper created by the former method of general suppression. NEW COLOURS. HOSIERY FOR WOMEN. (Received 9 a.m.) PARIS, March 16. As a set off to the campaign for longer skirts, stocking-makers are offering women hosiery in new colours, such as wine rust, gold dust and platinum, with the ankles embroidered with tfowers, butterflies and animals. Other stockings have spiral designs and long, high clocks, lor picture designs.