Britain Buys Eggs Brom Yugoslavia Instead of Hungary

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 67, 19 March 1936, Page 10

Britain Buys Eggs Brom Yugoslavia Instead of Hungary

LONDON.- Briluiu will r:il mon eggs mid bm.'t'LL from Central Europe i> consequence of League of Nations sane Word comes from Geneva's (■ '.pert: on sanctions that sanetionist- nation me not buying from non sanctionis trade from Hungary, which is not. ap slavia, which is applying sanction; against Italy. This is one of the outcomes of tin mutual support which states imposi.ni sanctions under Article 16 of the Covenant of the Eeague of Nations are giv ing to one another. Britain in the case of Yugoslavia ha; now agreed to material reductions ii the limitations and tariffs it has hither to applied to Yugoslavian eggs, bacon turkeys and chickens. Yugoslavia has been exporting abou 176 hundredweight of eggs to Britaii each year and paying a duty of Is ti Is 6d. per 120 eggs, according t< weight. The duty on turkeys is reduc ed from 3d. to Id. per pound, this con cession being limited to 60,000 hun died weight per annum. The duty oi chickens is similarly reduced from 3d to Id. per pound, this concession bein; limited to 20,000 hundredweight pe annum. The agreement was reached aftei consultation with the British Dornin ions and Southern Rhodesia, whose con sent was required under the Ottaw: agreement.

Depression Aids Bible Sales In Many Countries LONDON.—Noticeable increase ir. the sales of the Bible during 1935, especially in countries where times are critical and instability is greatest, is announced by the British and Foreigc Bible Society here. In Germany, for instance, the sales of the society for 1934 35 rose to 153,483, an increase of 20,000 on the previous year. In Spain sales have risen since the revolution, the increase in 1934 35 being about 20,000. In Italy, on the other hand, the last reports showed a decrease in sales. The society has supplied both Italian and Ethiopian soldiers with Bibles, f ive thousand Bibles were distributed in Ethiopia. Bibles for Italians were out at I’ort Said, but the Italian authorities subsequently objected and the society stopped the supply. The greatest increase, in sales has taken place in China, rising by 400,000 to 4,290,459 copies in 1934-35. The growth of literacy among the Chinese, the society holds, is responsible for this increase.