GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) TEA SALES. CALCUTTA, June 0. The first tea sale "was held yesterday‘when 285 S packages were offered. THE SAYIDGE INQUIRY. Australian Press Assn.—United Servico LONDON. June 6. • The Police-Savidge inquiry lias opened. Birkett appeared for the police. The Public Prosecutor, Mr Bodkin, made a statement regarding the action lie took.

Mr Hastings, opening for Miss Savidge said, neither she nor anybody representing lief, sought to reopen the Hyde Park case. He commented on the police actions towards Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. Miss Savidge gave evidence along the lines cabled, concerning the alleged third degree methods mentioned in the Commons. Cross-examined, slie said Money -came to her home at midnight, after the examination because lie had heard tlie police were making inquiries. Money seemed upset on learning she made a statement. It was arranged at Money’s suggestion she should visit the solicitors in the morning. Her statement to the solicitors, as read out in Parliament was mostly voluntary. Cross-examined by Mr Birkett, Mbs Savidge said her statement to Scotland Yard was not true. Ylr* Birkett; “Have they put in things you did not say.” Miss Savidge: “Yes.” Miss Savidge at first denied she often returned homo late, hut later admitted it. It was true she often met Money and left -him after midnight and returned home alone. She met Money about a dozen times in six months. She denied that she took wine, visited a cinema or a theatre.

theatre. Mr Birkett: “If you had nothing to conceal why did you not tell the whole truth.” Miss Savidge: “Wliv should I, after 1 have been acquitted,” Air Birkett: “That’s your view. I leave it at that.” The case was adjourned. LONDON, June 7. Air Birkett resumed the cross-exam-ination on Aliss Savidge’s statement. ALiss Savidge objected to several portions of it and denied having made some of the statements attributed. He (Birkett) asked why she initialled pages containing them. Aliss Savidge: “ Because I felt awful at the end of the cross-examination and would have signed anything to get away.” She described part of her statement regarding her attitude with Sir L. Chiozza Money on the seats, as all wrong. She said : “ Collins suggested that and rattled it into me.” When she said that was not what happened, Collins said : “ It really doesn’t matter: nobody else will read it.”

SCOTTISH BRIDIES. LONDON, June 7. The Provincial Synod of the Episcopal Church of Scotland has decided to amend the- marriage service by srjyvttitrting the term “cherish” for the term “obey.”

BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, June 0. Id the House of Commons, lit. Hon. Neville Chamberlain moved the second reading of the Ratio of Valuation Apportionment Bill. He explained that it dealt with the machinery of the rate relief scheme. All- Philip Snowden (Labour) moved ♦ an amendment objecting to the unfair discrimination in tlie measure as between various enterprises and various localities as a preliminary to the subsidising of certain industries, at the expense of the householders, the shopkeepers, and the distributors in such places. Taking industry as a whole, he said, the proposed rating relief averaged only one and a-half. per cent of the value of the total output. This would do but little to lessen the unemployment or to stimulate industry. The Government’s rate relief scheme was purely and simply a system of subsidies that were to he given irrespective of needs. He pointed out that the brewers, whose profits had iiicreased by 150 per cent since 1920, would he relieved to the same extent as the shipbuilding industry. Sir Kingsley Wood, replying to the debate, said that tlie representatives of necessitous areas would have no cause for complaint when the Government’s ’ proposals for the reform of local Government were being considered in the autumn.

BRITAIN'S WHEAT. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 9.,90 n.m). LONDON. June 7. Air Braithwaite’s Bill provides that the Ministry of Agriculture and Scottish Board of Agriculture should jointly fix the proportion of British wheat, which must tie milled to the total quantity milled. This quota, will lie fixed after the annual estimate of Great Britain’s production. It must not he less than one-tenth or more than one-fifth. ITALIAN EAIBASSY STONED. BERLIN, June 7. A party of youths stoned the Italian Embassy, smashing several windows. including the study where the Aiv-'lin-ssador was seated. The Communist newspaper “Rotefaline,” says the attack is a protest against the sentences imposed on the Italian Communists.