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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1929 PAGE SEVEN Australia Endeavoring To Give a Preference to British-Made Automobiles t (Bya Walton E. Schmidt in Auto- China, for example, "other within the . Where government aid is not avail- motive - Industries People everywhere want motor car and they are among the first artices to be purchased when there are funds A ayailable {above the amount necessary for obtaining the necessities of Sten e, This fact has been strikingly" brought home by Wallon E. Schmidt, field repre- sentative of the National Automo- bile Chamber. of -Commerce, after a year's 'in the Far Edst cov- ering Japan, China, Manchuria, the Philippine = Islands, Singapore, Java, Australia and New Zealand. attempting to ° give interested people in those countries a com- prehensive pigture of American methods of transport regulation and taxation. ! ; In the Far East, road-building is progressing rapidly and the exist- being improved. has. -18,000 miles of roads. adapted to.motor travel, and Japan 'is launching a national . road-buiding: pregram which will include a highway from one end of the main island to the fext - 10 years. ing routes' are able, in some countries, private : capital is undertaking the job of road building. Eighty 90 per cent. of the motor vehigles sold in the Far East go into the public conveyance service as taxis or buses, Police of- WIN our Share of the "30.0002 PRIZE MONEY for PICTURES SOMEONE must win the grand prizeof $2,500 in cash--oth- ers will divide the 1,222 lesser awards in the mammoth East- man prize picture contest. Get your share--with snap shots that you can take in but & minute or two. Start taking yellow-box Kodak Film. gets the picture. And for prints of prize-winning qual- ity, leave the developing and printing to us., Karn's Drug Store opposite Post Office ficials are requiring a better type of equipment for this service as a matter of safety, and most of the second hand vehicles now in this service will be scrapped in favor of new cars, which should stimulate les. Iron wheeled motor trucks are being ruled off the roads be- cause" of their destructive quali- ties, opening up a market for new trucks. . Without attempting like a statistical tions in the countries visited, the following paragraphs will present anything some of the high spots in foreign | automobile markets. In Australia and New Zealand, the development of bus and com- mon carrier truck transportation | is hindered by the fact that they are competing with the railroads|' and the latter, being government properties ,are influential in pro- moting legislation restricting the development of common carrier transportation and in obstructing legislation designed to help its pro- gress. id Australian Legislation Another disturbing featune of Australian legislation is the ef- fort to grant preferential taxation for British vehicles" While meas- ures of .this sort have not had any great success so far,'they are con- stantly being introduced in the state parliaments and it is likely that some of them will -get through. British manufactures have re- cently increased discounts to Aus- tralian dealers and American manufacturers may expect requests for increased discounts, have al- ways been greater than granted by British makers. Low-priced cars are supreme in the Australian market and no cars beyond the $1,200 price class, of any make, are selling in quanti- ties. In connection with new mod- els, stress should be laid on lower gasoline consumption and greater mileage, ag these factors are being emphasized by European competi- tors, Industry Doubled' The Australian autompbile in- dustry has doubled its »roduction in the last four years but profits have not kept the pace. Australian motor car dealers report that prof- its are the lowest on record. They oppose 'force pump" methods developed at the expense of profits. Hard selling and the fight for business in excess of normal re- quirements has been largely re- sponsible for this condition. The discount on a completed car gives a definite but insufficient unit profit. Due to the tariff the distributor has only the chassis discount definitely set. His margia of profit on the coachwork, tires, batteries and other component parts which go to emake up th total floor cost is a source of-leak- age of met earnings To reach a price, fair margins have been sac- rificed in the hope that larger sales would bring about the neces- sary total of profits. It is now those claimed that Australia has a nor- ry . report of condi-| £ 8 83 5 i & 2s 2% i DODD'S KIDNEY SAYS DIVERSION IS NOT NECESSARY 70 GHIGAGO RIVER Engineer Testifies at Hearing of Lake Michigan Water Diversion Case (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Washington, - April ,24.--Diver- sion of water of Lake Michigan in-. to the Chicago River is not neces- sary to navigation of the river, in the opinion of Major Gen. Edgar B. Jadwin, chief of army engin- eers, in testifying yesterday at a hearing on the lake diversion con- troversy. General! Jadwin said that the diversion was needed, however, to the Illinois river and projects of the Mississippi river system, This statement was under cross-exam- ination by Hamilton Ward, at- mal rate of motor vehicle absorp- tion, provided that the cars avail- able can be marketed at a reason- able cost, and beyond which sales costs are so high that profits are eliminated for the complete turn- over, ' Prospects in Australia are not bright, on the whole, due to the continuance of strikes in various linse of industry, coupled with the dissatisfaction of the dealers due to low profits. In New Zealand, on. the other hand, a depression period has been weathered and sales of automobiles are breaking 'all 'records. Far Eastern dealers say the coming of the low-priced car has considerably slowed up the sale of used cars. There is a preference for .a new low-priced car rather than a used car, no matter how good it may be. New cars are often sold for a very small down pay- ment or no down payment at all. Time to pay has been extended, in many cases, from 18 months to two years. Many of 4he sales are to natives, those who operate the vehicles for hire, sleeping in the car when it is not in use. Police departments are tightening the restrictions on such 'vehicles and it is probable that many of the op- erators will be refused licenses, with the resultant possibility that payment for the vehicles may never be completed. W.I. CONVENTION IN ALBERTA Edmonton, Alta., April 23.-- More than three hundred branches of the Alberta Women's Institutes have set the dates of this year's annual convention for the last 'four days of May, to be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Alberta is second in the growth of Women's Institutes in Canada, coming next to Ontario, which has more than 1,000 branches. 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PAPAL NEWSPAPER LAUDS KING VICTOR Vatican Official Organ Comments on Speech From Throne Rome, April 24.--For the first time since 1870 the Osservatore Romano, official organ of the Vatican, Satur- day commented sympathetically and indeed with high praise, on the King's speech from the Throne at the open- ing of Parliament. The Osservatore says that the speech emphasized the fact that the concordat between Italy and the Vatican completed the union of the other country spiritually as well as territorially, morally and religiously as well as geographically, and po- litically. "The exceptional historical bearing of that event, consecrated by the august word of the Sovereign, was acknowledged and greeted by Parlia- ment with unanimous applause," re- marked the Osservatore Romano. It adds that proclamation of the Lateran Treaty as a decisive factor in the renaissance of tialy in His Majesty's speech, forms the worthi- est celebration of the great event. MAN STABS SELF ' WITH TRICK KNIFE New York, April 24--The fabled Spartant boy who carried a fox in- side his shirt until the animal had gnawed clear through to his back- bore, had little on Clifford Rothkoff, 35, an artist. Rothkoff was giving a party for some friends when he decided to them by stabbing himself with a trick knife. To his consternation, the blade failed to slip back into the handle as expected, and he felt cold steel entering his chest," Rothkoff asked afriend to "take a walk" with him, Outside the house, he summoned a taxicab and collapsed on the way to Bellevue Hospital [Were he was told he would probably live, as the blade had penetrated no vital organ, Rothkoff"s wife, Leslie notified from the hospital of her "Musband's condition after the guests had mer- rily, departed, became hysterical. CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN MINISTER ACQUITTED Prague, April 24. -- Dr. Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakian foreign minister, was acquitted of libel yesterday after only a few min- utes. ,. Benes was the first active Cab- inet member to sit in the prison- er's dock since establishment of the Republic, and his appearance ended a suit, filed 30 months ago by M, Hlavacek, secretary of the National Democratic. Party. The -news spread rapidly when Benes appeared unexpectedly: in court and said he was ready for trial. He previously had refused to testify. Crowds began coming from all parts of the city, but be- fore many of them could arrive the trial was over. .. Companies Amalgamate Waterloo.--S. C. Tweed, presi- dent of the Ontario Equitable Life and Accident Insurance Company, Waterloo, and J. M. Walton, presi- dent of the Equity Life Assuranee Company, Toronto, announced Mon- day an agreement has been reach- ed for the amalgamation of the two companies. Buy Municipal Bonds 'Windsor, ----- George Carruthers and Son, local bond house, has purchased from the town of Sand- wichia $137,000 bond issue for local improvements. The price was $98.5. The bonds are for 15 years, bearing 5 1-2 per cent, "DUTCH SETS " 18c LB. MULTIPLIERS 12¢c LB. HOGG & LYTLE Phone 203 maintain 'navigable conditions of" Prague, April 24.--A joint trus- teeship of the sea , composed of England and the United States, 'was predicted by Ferdinand. Ve- verka, Czechoslovakian minister to Washington, writing in then ews- paper, Czekeslovo, Veverka's article dealt with the difference between the Eng- lish and American conception of the freedom of the seas, and ex- plained that according to United States opinion, England was actu- ally the world's arbiter because JOINT TRUSTEESHIP OF SEA BY BRITAIN AND USS. IS FORECAST she supported the largest navy and could blockade Europe. oe Public opinion in the United States strives legally and actually to change the situation, the article said. Veverka added that sugges- tions made in that respect in the United States must be taken seri- ously throughout the world. Speaking of the "joint trustee- ship of the two great Anglo-Saxon peoples," Veverka said: "A stronger combination is hardly imaginable and the influ- ence of such a 'Pace Anglo-Sax- onia' will be an important ques- tion in world politics, especially for Buropean continental powers." FEAR OF INFLUENZA 'CAUSE OF RIOTING Apia, British Samoa, April 24.-- Reports that a steamer was bring- ing influenza from New Zealand caused 300 notive Samoans to méfle a demonstration with knives on the wharves here Sunday. Mili- tary police were called out and the trogble suppressed without casual- ties. 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