AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) EAT MORE MEAT! WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Sir H. Denison (Australian High Commissioner) has requested a copy of the Argentine Ambassador’s report proposing a world meat congress for the advocacy of more consumption of meat, throughout tho world. Sir H. Denison believes the suggestions will have Che full sympathy of Australia, and will lead to the co-operation in the conference. The Argentine Ambassador, Senor 11. I’uymydon, is already scheduling conferences with private interests here in the hope of interesting them in the proposition. WINTER STORMS. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Great blizzards, extending from the '■Rocky Moiitfßains to the Great Lakes, and freezing temperatures in California, Louisiana and Georgia, with a threat of floods in Vermont, have brought a unique winter to the United States. There are sixteen persons reported dead through cold. Five deaths have resulted from exposure in Western Canada. One hundred and fifty men were imprisoned for twenty-four hours by snow in the Ford Mine, in Michigan. They were saved through the use of skis. There were railway cuttings filled with twenty-five feet of snow. Fire brought an additional menace. A million dollars blaze destroyed the Kansas City dockyards. A fire in East Chicago, Indiana, wiped out an entire business block.