BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Australian and N.Z. Cable AwsueiatJoa'.l l ■ f. ' ■; * L k HOLY YEAR 'CANOteMW-' f - „ ,ROXEi. May- ; 21. The Peps performed, file can on. saticn of BLssed lather Canisius. •; ! ' U.S.A. AND POLAND? , . ' (' WASHINGTON, May 21.; Polish ' bonds', amounting to 178,560,00 dollars have been. delivered by the Treasury, thus formally Completing the funding of Poland's debt. NO VOTES FOR PEERESSES. . LONDON, May;2l. By a majority of 80 votes to. 78, the House of Lords rejected the. - second reading of a. Bill to enable Peeresses in their own. right t'o feit and t ote in the House <ff I.ords. The Bill was left to a free vote., ; - AERIAL TRANSPORT,'? ’ VANCOUVER,; ’lay ,2L. The National Air Transport Incorporated has been organised at Chicago with a capital of ten million dollars,' It is to operate a freight and an express service between New Y.ork and Chicago. Other similar lines arc contemplated. ' ' ■

TRANS-ATLANTIC, VENTURE. NEW YORK, May 22.

Car Wood, the speedboat champion, says Hint he is laying plans to attempt to cross the Atlantic in fortyeight hours from Newfoundland to Cbwes in 1927. To do this, his boat will have to maintain a speed of sixty miles per hour, refuelling- from a steamship stationed at sea. Wood is also planning a, speedboat capable of. doing one hundred miles an hour. MOTOR OVER PRECIPICE , ' ' .. PARIS, May 22. A motor car in ‘which v were members of tfie League of Nations’ Malaria Committee, returning from a tour of Lebanon crashed dtfer, a precipice. Doctor Lothian Ktieryj (Britain), Doctor Barling (United States), Mademdise(le\Besson (French Secretary) were killed. Another French woman and a Dutch doctor were injured. , , . FOOD COMMISSIONER’S REPORT , LONDON, May 21.; Replying to a question in the Hous/ of Commons as to whether, in view of the statements in the.Fqqil Commission’s report regarding the operation of trusts and combines, the Government proposes to. introduce'or facilitate legislation in 'that connection, 'Mr/Baldwin replied that the 'Government’s - programme of * legislation wap urgent and important.< It was sojarge' a? to \be impracticable to enlarge it at present.

BRITISH INCOME TAX. LONDON, May 21.

Clauses 21 and 22 of the Finance Bill have been issued, 7 apd they ordain that where trade of any kind, is carried on, or ; on behalf of, any Government outside Britain or Northern Ireland; that Government shall be liable for all income fax in the same manner,as any other person. High Commissioners and" Agents-Geh--eral, however, will continue to enjoy immunity from income, and land taxes.. ,- • r ’’ . ~ l '

Silk duties. : ■ . , LONDON. May/2L Mr W. Churchill announced that the easterns duty on natural wo’ild be reduced fromiJ./6 to 1/ p€r..lband that on raw silk 4/. to : that ; on m ide-un articles front 33 i-3-. per cent to 10 per cent where, the value./f;:. ‘the silk component does, not exceed, ; twenty- per pent of tlie- value.of?jthft-. article, to to twb per 7 cent.. whbre. it, does not exceed fiv*\ per. eept. Tb« Hu t v on imported, ini if ieia 1 ’ t silk, tisspe remains at forty two penbe per pound.

1 r EMPIRE COTTON GROWING,, .s . .LONDON, May 22.. ; Presiding;, fit the annua pi nte-eting/d-l--th- Empire, Cotton. Growing .Corpprar tipn. Lord-Derby said it was, estinfißt; ed that the - Empire's-, cron oft .cotton in the year 1924 25, exclusive of India, was 1 350.000 bales, as cpihj/qr.ed with 249.000 bales' in the .-1923-24; <diid 169.000 in.Rhe year 1922-23.; It was decided tO- cdutributo £3OOO, yearly for the maintenance of.'bxp'erßmental farms in-Australia : . ■ lire expert, Mr Evans; recommended that a specialist- be appointed for Fiji to train demonstrators to assist native cotton cultivators. ' ...

UNEMPLOYMENT PROPOSALS LONDON, May 22/ Unemployment was again dismissed ; in the Commons. Mr. Qliyer moved the second reading, of the Labour Party’s Bill, entitled “Prevention of Unemployment Bill,” providing; for the jestabli'shim nt of a National Employment and Development 80ard,..-,with a; State,grant of three liiillions sterling yearly, the Boar'd to consist of s Min-, isiers of the Cr'Qwn; -and to . j be , empowered to make advahces r .td the Dominions or "Colonial Governments, or local and public authorities, to he spent anywhere in the Empire on purposes calculated to provide employment.

/Mr. Oliver said great areas of land were hi Britain that could be used to provide much of.the meat, butter and sugar now imported. British craftsmen were going to although,; there was ample opportiihity.ufor -rthepi,: in the Co’onies if the Colonies develoned.las the- report , of. the! last Africfin Commission showed they could be qeR-

veioned. ,7 , ; Mr. Lloyd George declared tliet ■nothing could be done .under the bill which the Cabinet was unable to do without it. • , •: ■ '