GENERAL NEWS.
A Big Rica Deal.
The als to the Russian Government of nearly Yen 1,000,000 worth of rice is reparted from Japan, the purchaser being the Department of Agriculture and Commeres. Rice dealera st Chemulpo are said to have con- cluded the contract, which calls) for the delivery in lighters at Vladivostok of 68,000 "koku of zalesned rice within four months, at Yen 16.50 per koku. Russia is to iarna five per cent, exchequer billa payabis in a year.
Tip-and-Run Submarines.
"It is impossible to prevent the occasional appearance of an enemy submarine within the range of our shores, but I can give an 'amenrance that the mea- sures taken are such an to render proceedings of this sort in- creasingly dangerous to the submarine," said Dr. Macnamara in the House of Commons, Ro plying to a suggestion by Mr. Wing that the Sasham Harbour partion of the north-east coast should be armed, Me, Forster said the disposition of guns could not be made publio.
Large Dollar Standard.
The Chinese banks in Fengtian Province are withdrawing from circulation their bank notes sa s preliminary to the adoption of the new large dollar standard in lieg' of the small silver coin standard. We are informed that the notes claimed to have already been destroyed by the Three Estern Provincial Banks, the Heilang- kiang Provincial Bank, the Ia- dustrial Brak, the Frontier Development Bank, etc., smoant to 8.Y12,000,000, and that, socording to the latest rates, the difference bзtween silver und notes has been narrowed down ~to robeat ST per: 8Y100.-
Manchuria Daily News.
Logwood Colours.
The continuance of the war in Europe is giving colours derived frem logwood a chance to widen their field of usefulness in America, socording to an execu five of a well-known dyestuffs
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Mapitione esya, we owe to the good sense, industry, and intel- Ligence of an Australian, Miss E D. Proad, who, after graduating at the University of Adelaide, inquiry and research into the has spent many years of patient conditions of welfare work, a carried on in the factories of the Commonwealth, and of Great Britain. She has farther earved in the Welfare Department of the Ministry of Man tions since its foundation. Her knowledge of are also turning to these dye- and her book hide fair to become the health and well-being of the including English baths and kitch-
Welfare work is therefore unique, period it was all important that with every modem convenience, 11 6 long. the standard work on the anbiot." workers should be carefully esfe- Miss Proud's book, which is about guarded. This was specially the to be issued by G. Bell and Sons, cas with women and young adda another link in the obein of people. The workers of to-day intimacy between Great Britain are the mothers of to-morrow. In
Mr. Lloyd George says in Brisain were needed to save Kowloon,
awar of workshops the women of his foreword:-Among all the Britain, it was for Britain to changes which the great war has protect them. Steps were taken brought in its train, bone is more immediately to improve the cou signifioint, and none more likely titions under which both women to have lasting effect than the and men were working. revolution in the structure `ci British industry. For the firm mittee was appointed to consider A strong Departmental Com- time in our history many firm the question of the health of hare submitted to a general con- munition workers, under the direction. No man could have to secure adequate supervision, trol by the State; many workers chairmanship of that eminent been found better qualified by in the factories themselves, of the have desinated from the endsay sivil servant, Bir George. Now sympathy and experience for the conditions, under which women our to regulate the eapply and man. It has issued a valuable trek.
and young persona are working. restrict the output of labour. series of reports on hours of The factories are slive with new laboura, industrial fatigue, can-aggerate the importance of the small compensation, that the It would be impossible to ex- It is a strange irony, but no he had passed an unruff id exist-workers; the State assumes new teens, the employment of women-work which this Department bas making of wespons of destruc- exce in Adelaide. A carions responsibilities; freak needs and welfare supervision and the like. undertaken, Elaborate inquiries ion should afford the coincidence connected with his opportunities arise; industrial Earther reports are to follow. A are being made into the conditions tion to hamanies industry, name and longevity in the faot) conditions are in solation,”
Canteen Committee wee set up under which women and young Yet such is the osse. Old pre- that another member of the Indian Is no respect has the change in by the Central Control Board persons are working; and wherever judices have vanished, new ideas Medical Service, T.L. Hinton,who, our factories been more marked (Liquor Trafia) to assist firms in neomary immediate steps ave be- are shroad; employers and ↑ however, only spent three years in than in the character of the labor the constraction of onions ing taken to set them right. workers, the public and the State, this country, also lived to be over employed. Men of all de grip and to afford financial assistance Employers are being afforded are all favourable to new methods. a hundred years of age and died tions, drawn from every walk it in conjunction. with as recently as 1933. The first life, half skilled and unskilled. Ministry of Munitions. A comment to provide proper accom- allowed to slip. It may well be the reasonable financial encourage-The opporimnity must not be occasion on which Major B. H. have poured into munitions works mittee was formed, in association modation; not only osateens, but that, when the tumult of war in Elinton heard of his existence was Even more remarkable has be with the Home Office, to secure solos krooms, restrooms, lavatories a distant echo, and the making when, being himself 95 years of the advent of the women. From weakly rest to workers and to are being built, Stops are being of munitions a nightm re of the age, he read in the newspaper of the shop, from the work-room regulate the hours of their labone, taken to turn to sopant a part, the tart now being made T. L. Hinton's death at the age from domestic service many of these have been greatly reduced, sum generally pisood at the dis- to soften saperitine, ty means the of a hundred.
them utterly unsoonstomed to specially in the case of women poul of the Ministry of Manitions welfare of the workers, and to factory or even maneal work at the Ministry itasif a new by an Indian Prinos, the Mahaa build a bridge of sympathy.and they have come in their thousands Department was created, charged Jah Bain lin of Gwalior, by using understanding between employer and hundreds of thousands with the general responsibility of to enable men and women and employed, will have left be There has been no readier caring a high standard of con-workers to obtain the healthful hind realis cf permanent and patriotism. And thess, women fisions for all workers in muni- and invigorating pemestion they enduring rains" to the waskum these young girls, submit chsertion factories. At my request, ansory need. Byen more in to the maison, and to mankind at fully to long hours, to hard work, B. 8.
officer of the Indian Medical Ser. vise on the retired list, recalls the fact that he went through both the Sikh wars, being present, among other engagements, at Aliwal and Sobraon. Major Hin-
ton did not ees sotive service.
during the Mutiny. His name appeared in the retired list in
1888 and for the last fifty years
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