OVERSEA NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 3 September 1929, Page 6

OVERSEA NEWS

CABLES IN BRIEF British Motor Industry; The British press features reports forecasting gigantic British car development during 1930, putting out 340,000 valued at £68,000,000. It is anticipated that the 1931 readjustment of taxation will permit of a more powerful British car to compete with greater success against American cars. Germany and Anglo-Saxons; Admiral von Tirpitz, writing in the “Deutsche A'lgeinaine Zeilung,” appeals for closer co-operation between Germany and the Anglo-Saxons. Germany has so many cultured relations with Britain and mor© with America and other commons interests, that good conditions between the three Germanic States must benefit them all. N.S. W. Railways and Tramways: The annual report of the Railway Commissioners of New South Wales reveals a deficit of £1,039,000 on the year’s operations. The tramways showed a loss of £9343, compaied with a profit of £27,000 in the previous year, while the decrease in tram passengers totalled 12,500,000. The commissioners attribute the deficit largely to drought and industrial troubles. Left in Abeyance; The New South Wales Prime Minister last night addressed the Chamber of Manufacturers and announced that the Government, not desiring to cast any additional burdens upon industry owing to the 'temporary trade depression now being experienced, has decided to leave in abeyance its proposed scheme of national insurance and child endowment. He emphasised the need for the greater application of science to industry if Australia wished to hold her own against foreign products, and illustrated the remarkable recovery Germany had made by the adoption of this principle. N.S.W. Arbitration Court Bill: The New South Wales Prime Minister, addressing the Constitutional Association yesterday, hinted that the vote on the Arbitration Court Abolition Bill would be made vital to the political existence of the Ministry. He claimed that his action in excluding Mr Hughes and Mr Mann from party meetings was actuated by the best of mptives and in the interests of good government.