GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1928, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service MONKEY GLANDS. LONDON, June 7. A meeting organised by tlie AntiVivisection Society crowded Caxton Ilail and overflowed next door. The speakers vigorously protested against Dr VoronolF’s experiments. Dean Inge, among others, wrote to | the meeting, describing the experiment as •‘monstrous,” and also deprecating England’s welcome to their originator. Miss Lindaf Hngeby presided. She said that Sir Win. Joynson Hicks, who had welcomed Dr Voronoff, was at the same time speaking on the Prayer Book. If, she said, Britain became a race of semi-monkeys, then the result of the Prayer Book controversy would not matter. Mr George Ariiss, the actor, declared that if Dr Voronoff’s ideas were carried out, “this would be a world of devils, skulking about and devourisg people in order to prolong their own lives.” He declared: “Lot us keep clean the bodies that God gave us. and let ns not dip into the messes brewed in Voronoff’s filthy kitchens.” The Duchess of Hamilton said that the Anglican Church had failed on this terrible question, and had pleaded that it could not be involved in medical matters. ■Resolutions were passed, including one of “protest against the revolting practice of grafting live monkey sex glands into men, women and children, as being offensive against morality hygiene and decency.”

TOM WALSH'S ADVICE. SYDNEY, June 9. Tom Walsh who is seeking re-elec-tion to the general secretaryship of the Australian Seamen’s Union has issued a manifesto which declares there has been a gradual revolution in the conditions of seamen without shedding a single drop of blood. The attitude of employees had changed even more than the conditions of the men at sea. At the same time it was necessary that seamen should realise the hazardous position the Australian shipping industry occupied today. It. continues: “I propose that 'the commonsonse of seamen be allowed to assert itself and create an industrial conscience which prevents men from stopping; ships for all sorts of fictitious reasons, discreditable to themselves and follow members, which will eventually spell utter ruin to the

seamen’s union.” WHEAT CONFERENCE. OTTAWA, June 8. Regina Wheat Conference closed without the expected resolution for world organisation with a single hoard to direct the flow, prices and destination of all co-operatively controlled wheat. A resolution broadening the scope of the world pool to include all co-operative wholesale consumcis organisations, was unanimously adopted" meaning the two extremes merchandising co-ordination producers and consumers will meet at next couicie,uc. An Australian invitation to hold the conference next year is being considered. Every co-operatively controlled Association in the world is to appoint a national committee of delegates rl’oin which will form the intcinational committee to function as the directing body of next conference. FA IMI ERS EXC FUSION, j DUNEDIN.’ June 9. The West Coast farmers, about 250, who visited Dunedin for the show left by special train for homo to-dav.