GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1927, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

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BROKEX HEARTS. I .OX I MIX. June If. in his report the Scottish Prison Commissioner has not overlooked the human side of the criminal. Of llil children sent to Borstal institutions, lie says, over one-third had lost one or both parents. Out ol Id male and Id female adult prisoners, 27 had regularly attended church and Sunday school. One woman, a drunkard, with 100 convictions against her, declared she had been brought up too strictly. She began drinking at the age of 17. and bore two children to a man who refused to marry her because he was of a dili’orent religion to her. Excessive drinking, the report states, is responsible for the downfall of half the men and three-quarters of the women. Most, women begin drinking as a result of loss of heart through trouble, such as desertion or widowhood. Labour troubles, ineluding the coal stoppage, were responsible for 2000 extra commitments to Scottish prisons last vear.

" NELL (IWVXXE ” BAXXKD. CHICAGO, June 1(1. Dorothy Gish has declared that Mr W. 11. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors’ of America, will not allow her pictures, made abroad to he exhibited in the Cnitcd States because they arc "too naughty.” Already Mr Hays, she says, lias barred "Noli 1 Gwynne ” and a coming picture, “The Constant Xympli,” nonbeing made in London. " Mr Hays,” says, Dorothy. " is letting • Madame Pompadour ' in, however, and she is a whole lot naughtier —although cleverer, perhaps, than ' Xcll Gwvnne.’ ”

THE OTHER AfAXDATES. LONDON. June 21. It is learned at Geneva that Germany's application for membership of the League .Validates Commission will not arise till September. Theoretically Germany has an equal right with any other member of the League to a seat on the Commission, hut in actual practice the assembly, on the Council's recommendation, lias nominated strong Commission, giving preference to countries actually operating iiiim-

Sir J. Cook reported to the Coinmission to-day regarding New Guinea. He was closely examined by the Commissioners regarding finance, and was Rile to satisfy them completely. The Commission paid a tribute to Australia’s public, health efforts In New Guinea and to the manner in which the reports were presented. Sir J. Cook reported the appointment of the lion, l’eter AlncGregor as a Royal Commissioner to report on the goldfields of New Guinea.