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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 September 1928, Page 9

One or the reasons why Britain can niaver withdraw from India-, in the view of -Colonel E. F. \\ . La-scolles,. is purely economic, and lias a peculiar interest for New Zealander®. Colonel Lasoelles. who is a New Zealander, pointed out to a “Poverty Bay Her. aid” reporter that if Britain lost the (Treat market which India represents, especially in Lancashire, the purchasing power of the industrial population otWthe Old Country would be reduced to an alarming degree, and New Zealand’s trade in meat and wool would suffer in consequence. The Dominion, therefore, has a substantial interest in the maintenance of British rule in India, and a- story told of Lord Inchcaipe is said to have itaken a- clasp note of the extent to which British capital is involved' in the development of industry there, and when questioned as to what would happen if the Ebglish left the country, replied: “It could not happen, for the Scots would never let them leave.” New Zealand could not afford to let Britain surrender so great a market. .... Experiments designed to improve tin? visibility of railway headlights are now being made by the Railway Department with the object of making the roads safer for the’ motorist. The experiment,si aim at the provision of a, broader beam of light, which will shed greater ilium,ination sideways, and thus bo pila-inlv visible from roads parallel to the rail wav track. At the same time, sorni? doubt exists as to whether this object can be gained without re,me saccrifice of visibility ahead, and the de- ■ tment’s first consideration is to ensure a clear view for the driver. If it is found that the beam, ahead suffers, the sideways beam will have to go. Over 52 000,000 ueople have been carried bv the 'New Zealand railway® in the past two years without onr? fatality and the department insists that its first duty is to the passengers in the .train.