BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

ANTI-DUMPING RESOLUTIONS DUTY 7 ON DOMINION PRODUCTS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 12. < During the debate on the anti-dumping resolutions the House of Commons by 142 votes to 27, rejected Mr Trevelyan Thompson’s amendment exempting from duty I manufactures from the dominions. The Government declined to accept Mr Trevelyan Thompson’s amendment on the ground I that dumped goods might be sent to the dominions for re-export here. The antij dumping resolutions were carried at 4.30 i in the morning by 118 to 36 after the clos- | ure had been applied. Mr Hilton Young, replying to Mr Wedgewood Benn, said that British receipts from the levy on German exports since April 2 amounted to £9OOO. RAILWAY ADMINISTRATION GROUPING OF LINES. LONDON, May 11. Under the Government’s new Railway Bill the English railways will be amalgamated into four groups. The English groups are the South-western, North-western and Midland, North-eastern and Eastern. Scotland will be divided into the Western and Eastern groups. The various companies must submit their am a>gam ation schemes before June 30, 1922. The scheme will operate from JanI uary, 1923. Three commissioners will form the malgamation tribunal and prepare schemes where the constituent companies fail to agree and passenger rates and freights will be fixed by a special rates tribunal. Where rates yield an excess beyond the standard 80 per cent., the surplus will be used in reducing the rates. IDLE SHIPPING. RESULT OF DEPRESSION AND STRIKESLONDON, May 12. As a result of the depression and strikes, there are now 1160 ships of 1,700,000 tons laid up in British ports. The total partly or wholly unemployed is now estimated at 5,000,000 tons. THYROID GLAND TREATMENT. A BAD ADVERTISEMENT. DEATH OF REJUVENATED SEPTUAGENARIAN. LONDON, May 12. Mr Alfred Wilson, an ex-Australian of independent means, well known in Sydney, 77 years of age, recently went to Vienna and received thyroid gland treatment. He declared that he was 20 years younger. Mr Wilson thereupon engaged the Albert Hall for a lecture on the subject. Many doctors were interested in his so-called rejuvnation. Mr Wilson was found dead in bed on the morning of the lecture. He had been complaining of indigestion due to a supper of haricot beans and tea. Professor Steinbach, of Vienna, promised that the treatment would be effective for 20 or 30 years. His friends believe that Mr Wilson did from excitement. STORAGE OF APPLES. A NEW PROCESS. LONDON, May 12. The Food Investigation Board is inquiring into Mr Franklin Kidd’s invention for the storage of apples by means of selfgenerated gas, which he claims is cheaper and equally as effective as cold storage.