BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyrigh*.)

N.Z. FRUIT IN BRITAIN LONDON, January 19.

Mr. Gray, Chairman of the . New Zealand Fruit Board,' stated that.,bominion’s case before ‘ th^ iclpiperial Economic Committee. He is, at present visiting the north of . England and Scotland arranging for the distribution of coming shipments of fruit. ; \ AIRMEN’S GREAT TRIP. PARIS, January 20. Three military airmen, Ginery,Rabatel, and Charles, in separate machines, reached Lyons on the homeward, portion of the journey to Teheran and; back. They have so far covered 8080 miles in eighty hours, without any mishap despite gales and blizzards. . j .

RUSSIAN HORRORS. LONDON, January 20. . The “Times’s” Riga correspondent Reports thlat .seventeen prisoner's 'at Novgorod, Syeversk, in the Ukraine, were strangled. ' The Chief Warder obtained firms and fought the Red soldiers. One of the prisoners was killed, anoffier was recaptured;. but others escaped. - ' ANCIENT''STATUEk- ; - ? . ' ATHENS, January 20. . * Peasants near Calacrytli,. irPiPeldponJ nesus, unearthed a. statue of Athena. Expfefts K able to examine the as the peasants have' Even the arrest of the peasants j-fiaVe.,'.failed to induce revelations of hiding plaee- JiiJgkr CANARY ISLAND STORM. - v MADRID, January T 9. Describing the terrifying character of the storm ip the Canary Islands, which lasted for threfe days, reports from Las Palmas, say there was/not a single house , not damaged, ; ■ Six bodies so far have been discovered, but the number of the victims and the extent of the damage on the rest,of the island is not known. '' ’

CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS OTTAWA, January 19.

Advice from Winnipeg states/that a settlement, known as Clan Donald Colony, comprising one hundred families, embracing thirty thousand acres, will be established at Vermilion in Alberta, next spring, under the joint agency oft he. Railway and the Scottish Immigration Aid Society. .The ; land . has-..already been purchased, and funds are-Avail-able for the construction of homes and the Stocking of farms. ~ / :

AUSTRALIAN-CANADIAN TREATY

. VANCOUVER, Criticism of the Australian.. Trade Treaty, in so far as it affects the fruit - industry <in Canada, was featured in the Presidential address by Mr. Lionel Ward, at the annual meeting of the British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association- 'at Vernbn, British Columbia, “that this treaty is one which will have very serious effects' on the fruit and vegetables’ industry of the province, as already quotations have been received for apricot pulp at a lower delivered price than the growers, have been receiving in the past for fresh fruit. The same conditions are likely •. to arise with berry pulp and. canned tomatoes.” ... LONDON FASHIONS. \ LONDON, January 19. “London is the world’s centre for men’s fashions. Then why should our women so long be content to express their personality through dresses' made by Parisian model houses ?" This is a question asked by the Federation of British Industries in a circular announcing the. creation of a palatial British Model House in Regent Street wherein all the fabric trades are collaborating, not only in ■ dress goods, but in shoes, gloves,-and furs. .

The circular discloses an illuminating fact. Each Parisian model is accompanied by a certificate showing whence the materials came. The natural result of this is that repeat orders go to the same, source. a million British workers are concerned in the Regent Street enterprise, the Federation appeals to British women to assist in making London the fashion centre of the. British Empire, '

WOOL INDUSTRY , LONDON, January 19. The Yorkshire Post’s Bradford, correspondent’' lengthily draws attention to the baldness of the Wool Federation’s announcement turning down Sir J. Higgins’s plans for wool control that were discussed on December 10 last. ,

The correspondent says that the Federation’s annual report does not indicate what occurred on December 10. There was, he says, a conspiracy of silence at the annual : meeting, wherefrom it should have been expected that the position would 'be made clear to the world’s wool,users. All the notes were destroyed at Sir Ji Higgins’s request. He will make his own report in Australia.. His version might pot fit Bradford’^—Naturally, says the writer,' such secrecy: creates controversies. Obviously Sir J. Higgins proposes to disturb further the Australian wool trade, and it should have been Bradford’s business to throw light on what was •in his mind. ’ ';. ?•••.J- te