GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10316, 27 January 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

WORLD-WIDE HAPPEN INGS. Mr. JBen Morgan, Government technical adviser, in an address in London on Empire sugar, announced that the Empire producers a ere forming a federation of mutual interests. The world’s tariff shut out their product, but 10 years of a halfpenny a pound British preference would encourage production. Queensland could be made a great source of supply, but it had little hope on the British market under the cx.sting conditions. The Canadian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday issued the 1926 crop report, estimating the total wheat yield at 406,269., 000 bushels from 22,768,000 acres. The affiliated Trades and Labor Councils of Australia decided to send a protest of the various State Labor Councils against the personnel of the industrial delegation to -the United States to the American Labor Conference, states a Melbourne message. Miners at nine of the- Cambrian Company’s pits at lonypandy, a iter a day’s strike, decided to strike every Monday until their alleged grievances are redressed. To date the Australian Mar Service Homos Commission have erected 29,957 homes in tlie Commonwealth, at a cost of £23,340,166.

Lieutenant Estienne, who conquered the Sahara desert in a 6 h.p. car, reached Fort La my on Lake Tchad, in H da vs from Paris. He lias covered 8000 kilometres, much of the distance being through waterless desert and absolutely alone. He. is continuing towards the French Soudan, but returns before long for his marriage m Paris. He is tlie son of General Estienne, inventor of the French type of tank. Marconi’s officially announce that the tests demonstrated that the Anglo-Australian beam is capable of working at high speed each way for more hours than the terms of the Post Office contract require, hut defects have developed on some auxiliary apparatus. The company has informed the Post Office it requires further time to correct these delects, therefore it is not asking the . Post' Office to accept -the station until the defects are remedied. The Brisbane Master Builders’ Association lodged an application with the Arbitration Court lor tlie cancellation of the building trades award and the deregistration of the striking unions. The application will be heard on Thursday. Five hundred Roman -Catholic Boy Scout organisations in Italy dissolved in accordance with Mussolini’s decision to merge the movement into a new force known as Ballilla. Tho Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gasparri says he reluctantly authorised compliance with the law", but His Holiness hopes the bishops and priests will keep a watchful eye upon the welfare of youths.

Mr. McTiernan, Attorney-General of N.S.W., reporting to tl*j Ministry the result of his mission to Melbourne to consult constitutional authorities on the Child Endowment Bill said the State could introduce the scheme without contravening the Federal constitution. After discussing the amended scheme, the caucus decided to adopt the principle of child endowment, hut that a committee be appointed from the caucus to inquire into the matter and report, to the next meeting of the caucus. The Secretariat of the League of Nations handed the Council and members a long letter from the Australian Government, states a Geneva message, detailing its reasons for opposing the hearing ot petitions by the Mandates Commission, and against the commission’s new questionnaire. The letter declares that the Australian Government, is always ready to give the Mandates Commission its entire support, but considers that the commission’s aims for the protection of the natives will best borealised if the hitherto existing spirit of cordial'collaboration is maintained. As the result of the Imperial Trade Conference, the British manufacturers’ section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders is sending an official delegation to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to explore the means of securing for the British motor industry a greater place in the markets of the. Empire. The delegation will depart in March and will return to England in August.