GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 191, 8 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By. Telegraph r Pref8 Associatton-OopyrighV Canada will be represented by three delegates at the International Labour Congress at Genoa on Juno 15. At the Queensland Rifle Association meeting J. Cadderi, "of Ihe Brisbane. Railway Club, won tlio King's- Trize. • • The first lady member of the Parliament of South Africa is Mrs. .Tollie, who won ther Unitali seat as a Responsible Government candidate'. '"'.'■' , . It is reported from London that the election of the committee of the National Liberal Club- resulted in members of Mr. Asquith's group capturing all the. thirty-two seats. The Now South. Wales'' Minister of Housing announced that owing to the shortage, of money, tin? Stato Government would _be unable to grant further financial assistance to people desirous of building their own .'homes. Federal : Senate' is' debating tlio Navigation Act Amendment' Bill. ' The main feature of the measure is that it carries "out the determination' of the Convention'for the 'Safety.of .'Lifo/at Sea, held in Loiidou following: the wreck of tlio Titanic. ■'.'•■*,'. Speaking in the Australian House of Representatives on the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Agreement Bill, Mr. W. 11. Hughes said that recently the shortage of .oil was so great-in Australia that the Navy could not have been moved had an emergency ariMiiy ■ Sinco the amusement fax was imposed in Australia in 1916, the Federal Government has collected .£1,119,71;) from this source, i A Melbourne message reports that a ballot of wool-growers resulted in the rejection of. the scheme of •. control, as • the required percentage ■of votes in favour of it was not reached. -. i A Bill has been introduced into the . United States Senate authorising loans amounting to 250 million dollars to American purchasers of German goods, and per- ; mitting the War Finance .Corporation to accept German securities.'