MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] NATIONAL LABOUR COUNCIL. LONDON. April G. The Labour National Joint Council at a meeting at the House of Commons passed a resolution expressing its determination to oppose the Trades Union Bill, as being a deliberate attack designed to deprive the workers of power of resistance, when they are assailed by the organised employers. DOCUMENTS LOST. LONDON, April G. A search is proceeding throughout London for some important documents relating to Britain and Japan, which have been lost in a taxi-cab by a member of the Japanese Embassy.

A DISASTROUS EIRE. -.Received this day at 8.30 u.m.) NEW YORK, April G. At Pareo, Wyoming, fourteen workers are known to have perished, and two are missing, owing to an explosion and a subsequent (ire which destroyed an oil refinery plant here to-day at t loss of live hundred thousand dollars. DE PINEDO’S PLANE BURNT. NEW YORK. April G. A message from Rooseveltdam, Arizona. states Do Pinedo’s flight ended to-day. when the seaplane " Santa .Maria.*’ caught fire as she was refuelling there, preparatory to hopping off for San Pi ego. De Pinedo and crew are safe, hut the machine is a total loss. Immediate efforts will lie made to raise the engine, resting on the bottom of Roosevelt lake at a depth of sixty feet

IRISH SENSATION. LONDON. April G. A sensation was caused in the Dail. by Dan Breen, who recently took a seat, sponsoring a hi 11 to amend the constitution by repealing the oatli of allegiance. The Dail by forty-seven votes to seventeen refused leave to introduce. PACIFIC CABLE. LONDON. April G. The House of Commons is discussing the Pacific Cable Bill in Committee. Mr V. Hartshorn (Labour) said he approved of the Bill’s socialistic principles. Mr Wheatley (Labour) asked if the Board's capital expenditure was >u any way limited. Mr Amerv (Colonial Secretary) pointed out that any unusual expenditure required the sanction of the Dominion Governments, who did not encourage ex tra vaga nce.

Air Kirkwood (Labour) moved to reduce the Chairman’s salary from one thousand to five hundred sterling. He argued that the Board only met ten times yearly, for about an hour each time. The debate was adjourned.