GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1929, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

CANADA’S MIGRANTS.

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (By . Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) OTTAWA, January 10. Arrangements are completed by the Department of Immigration to place in farm employment in Canada 6000 British trained emigrants, the maximum number available before the end of July. The number of farm.labourers from non-preferred countries is reduced to thirty per cent, of last year’s total of 47,000.

WHEAT PRODUCTION WASHINGTON, January 10. What is considered haye as a step towards better information on international wheat production, along the lines suggested by the two last international wheat meetings, is contained in a bill now being considered by the Senate Agricultural Committee, providing the placing of agricultural representatives in American Consulates and Embassies abroad. They would collect information regarding agricultural products, productions, demands and world competition. The wheat pool suggestions for sending observers to Argentina, were along similar lines. Buneos Aires reports state that the proposed measure has been unfavourably commented upon in Argentina. CHANNEL TUNNEL LONDON, January 11. Sir William Bull, Chairman of the Channel Tunnel Parliamentary Committee, announces that sixty-seven peers and 112 members of the House of Commons are definitely in favour of the project; forty-two peers and eleven members of the Commons oppose; twenty-four peers and eightysix members of the Commons are neutral.

FORGED DOCUMENTS.

WASHINGTON, January 11

Senator Borah has begun an independent investigation to ascertain the perpetrators of the forged documents whose contents, published to-day, disclosed that he and Senator Norris had ostensibly received a sum to obtain American recognition of the Soviet. Senator Borah also declared that the State Department should call upon the Russian Government to run the matter down. “My Government owes it to me to clear it up,’’ he said.

“GREYHOUNDS” SLUMP

LONDON, Jan. 11.

Dealing with the greyhound racing bubble, the Daily News reveals that hundreds of small investors despair of recovering their money, sometimes their life’s savings. The Greyhound Racing Association Trust’s report discloses a sorry state of affairs. Companies sprang up like mushrooms and shares soared dizzily, and are now worth in some cases, only a few pence.

TRANSFERENCE OF MINERS.

RUGBY, January 9

Sir John Cadman, a member of the Industrial Transference Board, stated that by means of employment exchanges nearly 700 men, boys, and girls were now being moved away from the coalfields every week to other employment in other places, and 300 or 400 more were moving on their own initiative.

Since the end of August nearly 10,000 people have been moved by means of the exchanges and with few exceptions are settling down to other work.