GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

CANADI AN POLITICS. (Deceived this day at 10.15 a.m.) OTTAAVA, June 6. The Commons adopted tbo report of the Industrial Relations Committee endorsing unemployment insurance. Replying to H. 11. Stevens (Conservative) the Premier said lie could not see a concurrence by the House in the principle that it carried an obligation to introduce legislation at the present. If the position was that the adoption meant the obligation to vote money now, the Government would not give support.

AYH EAT CON FKR EX CE. OTTAAVA. June G. A. AA". Goliglitly' and John Oliver (English Co-operative Wholesale delegates) urged linns to organise a cooperative wholesale society. Oliver advised giving co-operative societies a chance to sell factory products which farmers must import.

Peter Malcolm (Scottish Co-opera-tive delegate) said sixty per cent of the people ate co-operative bread and wanted to deal with co-operative farmers. All asked: “Do you farmers watch the vast resources and economic mcrclmntising organisations which propose to destroy co-operative activities in Britain by putting prices of products heyoiul our means?” The farmers answered in the negative.

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. OTTAAVA, June 6

The Parliamentary Immigration report tabled to-day recommends the extension of the age limit of boy immigrants from fourteen to nineteen (inclusive) ; reduction of, ocean rates for British immigrants tej ,£10; extension of assisted passage privileges to families of British immigrants now reasonably established in Canada and that responsibility for control and selection of immigrants should rest with the (anadian Government.

STF.W A R,T EXEC UTKD. LONDON June 0. Stewart, cabled on 18th April, was executed.

THE, PRAYER, BOOK. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 11 0 a.m LONDON, June 6. If Parliament again rejects the Prayer Book there is a prospect that confusion will spread and lawlessness looms large and ugly, says the Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter appealing to Parliamentarians to adequately consider the conditions under which the revision was carried out. Flo emphasised the" belief that the Prayer Book, which was a labour of many years, will serve in the church ol the ' twentieth century the highest needs of varied groups. Worshippers cannot easily believe that the vehemence of a small minority, consisting of a strange companionship of extremists of either side, are able to thwart ths wishes of the whole central opinion, which is not lightly reached. He believed the book would bo the rallying point for a rich and splendid unity. The Archbishop of Canterbury denies tho consecration prayer in the alternative community service is inconsistent with the reformation principle. “It is our intention with the co-operation of the clergy and laity, that the Rubric shall he obeyed. So far as I am concerned, no effort to secure peace and orderliness will he lacking. .1 am an old man and old men dream dreams. My dreams for the world I soon am leaving, are rich in hope. I believe tho confused questionings of the average people are not hostile to the old faith. My heartfelt prayer is it may somehow, and not least through the new Prayer Book, he helpful to the younger folk.” |