LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 4

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

(By BticTanJ TEiioßAra CorTamHT.I ' Pm Pb«m Association :' NEW ZEALAND HONORS. . (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 13. at 0.50 pm LONDON, March U. . .Distinguished condnct medals >«avf hwn awarded to thirty N« £»land♦to. Many nne feats, arc recorded. FLIGHTS. (Ana. :xmf N.Z. CaM«> A.-v=n.> Received March 13. at 0.50 p.m DAR-ES-SALAAM (G«rnwun East Africa), March '*- A owsuage states that Chatmera and Mitchell arei raftering from malaria, andhave been removed to hospital, whertJ they are recovering. KING OF SYRIA. (Ann. nnfl N.Z. C:iMp Asa" > Received Marrh 13. at 0.50 p.m. CAIRO. March 11. It is announced that Emir Fekut hn* been proclaimed King of Syria. LABOR GOES TO RUSSIA. (An». and N.Z. CaM* Assn.) Receive March t3. at 0.50 p.m. LONDON, March It--1 Passports have ben supplied to a> deof *leveri representing tho Con- < ttwws oF the Labor Party going to Russia to spend two months' studying toe economic and political condition*. 1n» delegation includes Mewr* J. >«. Thoma*. Webb, Ramsay McDonald, and Snowdeo, a"** Mesdames Mary McArthur and Margaret Bon field. FLIGHTS. (An*, and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BjecCTvfd! March 12, at,5.5 p.m. DELHI, March 11. Captain Matthews and Captain and Lieutenant Mcintosh left, Karachi to-day for Delhi and Rasirabad respectively. [ SOFT-GOODS PROFITS. By Telegraph. (Soeciat to the Oamani Mail.) WELLINGTON, March 13. " The Premier wis interviewed by a. denotation of the New Zealand Retail * Association and clothing trade " "''" representatives with a request that co*c of living tribunal* in considering f.ur profit be directed to take into account. the cert of replacement". The speak- :» ■ *k» «mtended that the trade had sav-xj the New Zealand conenmer hundred* or • • • thousands of pounds by early buying after the armistice, the result being that manv lines were sold in New Zealand retaal below the present English wholesale cost. Horrockses' calico. FinlaVs sheeting, and Tobrafco dross "■' cotton goods being quoted. The lastnamed was stated to he selling at .is a yard wholesale m England, the focal price-retail being 2s 3d. The deputation urged that profiteering investigations should be pursued to the source of mannfact^tre. Mr Maissey promised to refer the points, raised" to the Board of Trade. Without undertaking to accept sng."geiGons he won prepared to admit that * in many lines there had not been tmdne

profits- " '** *'Replyfng to a rerinest that the tribunals should include men with knowledge of the trade, the Premier said ... thee* eat. hi private, and thorp would' be an opporttmrty for those interested iu. the trade to make their represencn- ' v tion9.' "