GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRAL.IAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, March 23,

In the Commons, at question time, Mr Hope said sales of .surplus war property had been made to the Belgian Government to the value of six millions sterling, which included railway lines, locomotives, tugs, launches, barges, bridges, and huts, the whole of the contents of the arsenal at Mens ' was sold to the French Government, which was not yet entirely scheduled. The estimated amount was twenty millions, and comprised railway lines and installations, wharves, bridges, huts, dock equipment, and engineering plant. The whole of the contents of dumps in ;the advanced areas and vicinity of Calais and Dunkirk, covering stores ol every conceivable nature. Ihe stores were still being transferred to the respective Governments.

AUSTRALIAN GOODS. MELBOURNE, March 27. The Peace Exhibition, of the -most compr’ehonsive display of Australian made goods yet provided in the Commonwealth has opened. It lasts eight weeks.

RUNNING RIOT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 26.

Another instance of predatory syndicalism occurred in Naples. Employees at Silvesters’ ironworks suddenly demanded four hundred per cent increase of wages. The owners refused, whereupon the employees seized the works, which are now in a state of siege, being surrounded by the police.

agricultural SHOW. (SYDNEY, March 28. , The Royal Agricultural Show opens on Monday with record entries, in .Turkey, which are first of the

IN MEMORY OF . LONDON, March 26,

At a meeting held at Westminister, inaugurated a Roads of Remembrance Association for the purpose of planting trees in memory of the fallen.