DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15273, 25 June 1923, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

"Aberdeen has been exposed in a

German Granite for Aberdeen.

singularly unfortunate manner to the effects of foreign competition

and of the dislocation of the European exchanges," says the Glasgow Herald. "Her staple commodities are, fish and granite, articles which, though presenting a strikingly complemental contrast in most respects, share the appropriately north-eastern quality of frigidity. Both arc, for the recipient, exceedingly unpleasant when used as missiles; and as if it were not enough for Aberdeen to have her own special harvest, of the deep heaved back-at her by foreigners, she has now to endure a bombardment of German granite. Whether the most of the granite that is being shipped by German consignors to British ports is from German quarries, or has been brought originally from Finland, is not very clear, but at all events it is being manufactured and sold by German*. Germany will continue to be a nuisance to us, as a seller-ofr of bankrupt stock, until a proper composition is made with her and she is able to resume her activities as a purchaser."

"Labour's Prevention of Unemploy-

Labour and Unemployment.

ment Bill" was refused a second reading by a majority of . 24," says the Scots-

man. "The division did not represent the general sense of the House. Had it not been that the Minister of Labour announced that the frovernment could not giv§.- the measure any facilities, even if the second reading were carried, there would have been a much larger majority recorded against it. The Bill was similar to the one brought in on behalf of the Labour party last year, which got a favourable place in the ballot and 'came on for second reading, but was rejected by a majority 0/ 172 to 82. It embodied the Socialist principle of the 'right to work,' and the demand for 'work or full maintenance.' If Labour had its way, the whole burden of unemployment would be thrown upon the State. The Bill sought to centralise in the Ministry of Labour the task of 'preventing' unemployment and of administering relief when it occurred. Government and Local Authority work was to be organised with a view of securing better distribution of contracts, so as to equalise employment."