GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 150, 21 March 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Frees Association-Copyright.

A Reuter message states that the Admiralty is abolishing the familiar white straw hats worn in the Navy since Nelson’s day by men on foreign stations. The men fire being furnished with sun helmets.

Mr. M. L. Shepherd, official secretary in Great Britain of the Commonwealth, has arrived in London and has met the heads of Departments at Australia House. He will take over his duties this week.

A Sydney message states that the Full Court has decided that a person offering a commodity for sale is the seller under the Profiteering Act. In the case of a firm charged with selling sideboards at 90 per cent, profit, the Court decided that tho offer for sale disclosed no evidence of an unreasonable profit.

A French university professor has commenced a series of conferences with marriageable girls, with the support of the municipal authorities, for the purpose of teaching future wives and mothers the principles of physiology and hygiene. The professor says that after securing a husband, the next thing is to keep him nt home. The best way is to feed him well at tho lowest possible cost. Special courses in cooking are included in the conferences.

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a contribution of forty-three million francs for new buildings and endowments for the Medical School ‘and University at Brussels, states a New York message. Part of the new funds will be used for the establishment of a nurse training school, in memory of Nurse Cavell and Madame Defagp, a Belgian surgeon's wife, who was drowned in the Lusitania.