GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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TEXTILE INDUSTRY

LONDON, Nov. 25. Though the wool industry ers’ notices terminating the current wages agreement expired to-night, no notices wet' posted in tlie factories notifying the wage reduction. The National Association of Textiles Union decided to strike if the employers announced reductions. LONDON, Nov. 25. Lord Aberoomvay, and Lord Londonderry, Sir Alfred Aloud and Sir Josiah Stamp and other industrialists, sent a letter to the T.U.C. seeking a conference with the General Council to discuss industrial (relationships, and possible steps to enable British industry to meet foreign competition. WAGES IN U.S.A.LONDON, Nov. 28. “All this talk about the workers in America sharing in the increased prosperity and in the control of industry is pure humbug,” said Air Ernest Bevin, secretary of the Transport AVorkers’ Union, speaking yesterday at Messrs Rountree’s conference for directors, workers, managers and foremen. at Ilalliol College, Oxford. His subject was American efficiency from the standpoint of British labour, and he described his impressions of American industry during his recent visit, to the United States. nq found nothing miraculous in America” he went on. “Nothing there lias been the result of greater capacity than that which exists in this country.”

It was true, lie said, that American workers had accepted the machine age uuquestioninglv, and this was largeh due to the fact that the worker who was displaced by the machine could more readily find other employment !>ecause of the developing market in the United States itself.

In the next generation, however, lie thought America would find it very difficult, indeed to find the type of labour that she needed for her mass production factories.

The aim of all American parents was to get their children educated, but when the children passed from school it was not into industry they were going. They made for what was called white collar jobs. He did not think Britain had anything to fear from the New AVorld. “I wonder whether Britain’s solution lies along the lines of management and labour combining to Hire capital,” con-, eluded Air Bovin, “instead of hiring both of us.” THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. LONDON, Nov. 25. Lord and Lady Hastings, whose hurried marriage in 1925, on the day prior to Lord Hastings’ departure for Australia to manage a sheep farm, caused his father to announce that he did not consent, has returned from the South Sen Island of AToorea (20 miles from Tahiti), where Lord Hastings was engaged in copra and vanilla plantations. They declare that- the Pacific Islands are unpeopled and unexplored, and tlie only place to live in perfect*”'"’”''* happiness. They are returning there aftei the holidays. Lord Hastings added: “I am afraid the announcement of my marriage was rather a shock to my relatives. Happily my family has now quite recovered. BYE-ELECTTON. LONDON, Nov. 25 Canterbury bye-election owing to Hon AlcNeill’s elevation to the Peerage resulted:— Sir AY. AATayland (Conservative) 13,657 Colonel D. Carnegie /(Liberal) 10,175 PRINCESS SOPHIE. BERLIN, Nov. # 25. Princess Sophie was married to A’on Hedemann in Castle Church at the village of Restede. ALGERIAN FLOODS. PARIS, Nov. 26. Heavy floods are reported from Algeria, particularly in the Department Oran. The town ol Nostagnein is inundated. Forty were drowned. OBITUARY. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 27. Obituary, the result of a hunting! accident. Lord Derby’s daughter, -- ' J.adv A ictoria Bullock. It is believed she struck her head while passing under a bridge.

CHEMISTS AND FLAPPER DOM.

LONDON. Nov. 27. The patron saint of chemistry is Law Doctor E, F. .Armstrong, Director of British Dyestuffs Corporation described the modern flapper, at the annual gathering of chemists. He said almost everything the. flap) • displayed to our admiring view s ; a chemist’s work. She had rings on her fingers comprising synthetic stones, hells on her toes, otherwise—svntbetic leather, also mysterious underclothes, which constituted one oF chemists greatest achievements. The very sheen of her hair was perhaps synthetic, while her face doubtless boro fingerings of products of the dyestuffs cornoration.

AGE OF FLAPPERS’. LONDON. Nov. 27. Sir .Tames Parr in opening a school at Sea ford. Essex, expressed the opinion that the age of flapperdom in Britain lasted from twenty-one to twenty-five years, whereas it finished in New Zealand at eighteen. Hi*? experience was that girls at twentyone were steadier than hoys at twentyone. and disliked revolutionary change. Air Baldwin was rightly enfranchising women at the age of 21. AEROPLANE CRASHES. LONDON, Nov; 27. At Casablanca a military aeroplane taking photographs in Bodega region crashed and a pilot and six passengers were killed. \ COBHAM DELAYED. MALTA, Nov. 27. Sir Alan Cobham was delayed for a few days repairing a slight damage to a wing float. 4. LONDON, Nov. 27. Fifteen thousand dry luixes of the Port Caroline’s damaged butter were sold to blenders. The underwriters ruled out an offer for the bulk purchase of the remaining wet portion, with an undertaking that it lie used up in blending so that New Zealand’s origin would not he revealed. PILOTLESS AEROPLANE. LONDON. Nov. 27. The “News of the World ” reports that a pilotless aeroplane has made . eleven successful flights in France, under wireless control.