HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17829, 24 April 1926, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. RUBBER TREASURY NOTES. Prospects of rubber Treasury notes have been opened up by the introduction by Germany of rubber bills of exchange and the dispatch of specimens of the ingenious device to industrialists ,in England. Made of sheets of the thickness of paper, they are indestructible, save, of course, by fire, and may be cleaned with water, a fertile source of infection being thereby effectively guarded against. The possibilities of the adaptation are, of course, boundless, the only conceivable objections being the increased cost of production and the greater bulk in the note-case or pocket. What alone might outweigh these considerations, however, is the fact that the British rubber industry would be called upon to supply the demand for the raw material. Si Si Si EUROPE'S UNEMPLOYED. Unemployment is still rife, not only in Great Britain, but all over Europe, which has yet to recover its economic equilibrium after the shocks of the Great War. A year ago Germany had 1,800,000 unemployed. Last summer the number declined to 195,000, but now it is 1,762,000. Austria had 25,000 more registered unemployed at the end of last year than at the beginning, and has 33,000 more again since December. With those out of benefit the total is probably 250,000, and it is expected soon to be 300,000. Denmark’s visitation is terrible—one in every three Trade Union members. Much of the unemployment is believed to be only temporary. Unemployment in Sweden doubled last year. To-day’s figure is 40,000. Poland, with a much larger population. has 328,000 workless. France and Belgium are comparatively prosperous. Belgium has fewer than 17,000 people out of work, and that is double what it was a year ago. France has only 11,000. Great Britain’s total is about 1,200,000. FOOTBALL CUP-TIE FEVER. When the Liverpool footballers played Fulham recently in the Cup, perhaps the most enthusiastic supporter of the Northern club was Mr John Chambers, of Park Lane, Liverpool. To witness the match he walked from Liverpool to London. —206 miles—in eleven days. Mr Chambers’ route embraced Birkenhead, Chester, Whitechurch, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Coventry, Northampton, Bedford, Luton, St Albans, and Barnet. This last trip brings the total distance he has walked to big football matches to a thousand miles. The last hundred miles of the journey were made with a broken arm. Mr Chambers was knocked down in the dark by a car near Birmingham, and had his arm 6et and treated at various hospitals on the road. Two years ago he walked from Newcastle to Wembley, a distance of 274 miles, on the occasion when Newcastle won the Cup final Aston Villa. He took fifteen days to make the journey.