GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Telegraph—Per Press Association' BRITISH INSURANCE BILL. LONDON, Dec. 1. v The Commons in committee on the Insurance Bill, with the Government’s assent, reduced the contributions which disabled ex-servicemen were required to make before participation in benefits to ten, compared to the ordinary worker’s thirty contributions. Clause five was carried, and the debate adjourned. The Government made a surprising move by tabling a guillotine motifua on the Unemployment Bill, a 1 local mg three days for the remainder of the committee stage, a day for the report, and a clay for the third reading. Mr Thomas Shaw, on behalf of Labour, tabled an amendment declining assent to limitation of the debate on a bill which will deprive thousands of insurance benefits. The House is still discussing the fifth clause out of fourteen, though six days have already been spent in committee. ' CANCER SCOURGE. LONDON, Dec. 1.

Cancer mortality is increasing in most civilised countries, said Professor Blair, lecturing. The peril is now so great that unless we soon conquer the disease, nations will he forced to stop warring and unite to stamp out the horror threatening the existence of mankind. He advocated the first line of defence should be prevention, for which the public should be educated and organsied into a vast co-opera-tive scheme, sustained until it was as common as tlie washing of hands. He added: Cancer of the lips, mouth, tonsils, and pharynx were commonest in men, largely due to alcoholism, smoking with wooden pipes, and ci; T " • rettc holders gripped in the most com fortable position, the teeth continually directing the stream of hot gases to the same part of the tongue, roof of the mouth and throat. Cigarettes j without a holder were safest. This ) viewpoint is when cigars are impossible. 11c added: All over forty should bo examined twice a year at Government clinics.

CANADIAN TRADE TREATY. OTTAWA, Nov. 30,

The Premier asked the dairymen who demanded the abolition of the trade treaty with Australia, “ What becomes of trade within the Empire? Why ask for cancellation for the sake of a single industry, when modificatibn might do? Yours seems an extraordinary request.’!^ The Premier, in promising it consideration, declared that Parliament was the proper place for a treaty debate, and asked the dairymen to submit objections there. Mr Robb, defending the treaty, declared that the dairymen as a whole were not suffering. Cream and milk were fetching good prices. In good markets, the average price for Canadian butter in 1924-25 (before the treaty) was 42 cents per lb, now it 4(5. Canadians were not exporting liecause Montreal prices were higher than t London’s. The treaty was helping other industries in Canada, which were selling eighteen million dollars worth of products, to Australia’s six millions to Canada. Mr Robb cited Canada’s tremendous increase in exports of newsprint. Canadian motor exports were losing by Australia-, raising the tariff, while British preference was undisturbed.