BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16883, 2 August 1919, Page 7

BRITAIN.

CONGESTION AT THAMES DOCKS. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. llcceiv'ed 7.35 p.m. August Ist. London; July 29. The Horonytn. sailed from Plymouth vith thirteen hundred New Zealanders aboaSi.: , There is great congestion at Tilbury docks. Numbers of vessels havo been held up for over" a fort—night awaiting berths, including some from Australasia. The congestion in the warehouses is equally bnd. All storage accommodation is choked v.ith goods, and wool at present unloading must;. iynifc in the open, owing to lack of covering. Sir Auckland Geddes, in the House of Commons, '•tated that all , action possible to lembve the congestion is being taken.

SOLDIERS' PENSIONS TOO SMALL

The House, of Commons Committee reported in favour of an extra twenty millions sterling being utilised by adding 40 per cent, to soldiers' pensions to meet '"-pha increased cost of living since 1917.

, A BY-ELECTION

The Both-well by-election .resulted: J. Robertson. (Labour) 13,135 Provost Moffat (Coalitionist) 5957.

BREAKING UP OLD AYARSHTPS. It is announced that two hundred vessels of pre-drcadnought types in the British Navy are 'oeing salcj to lw broken up, including a number of destroyers.

COUNTRY'S QP.AYE CONDITION.

Sir It. S.. Honie. Minister of Labour, interviewed, stated that : .tlie country's wealth was depleted, and the'■ .industrial outlook was grave. People were indultriug in every form of selfishness. Manufacturers were profiteering, workers were striking and paralysing trade': and unless there was a great awakening the natijn would go down in disaster. ''Production'has reached a dangerously low level;, and work is the sole corrective.