GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Press Assn.—United Service LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY. LONDON, September 6. ,T. S. Gordon, presiding at tho Agricultural Section of tho British Association, read papers oil tho livestock industry. He eulogised New Zealand’s, Australia’s, South Africa’s and many foroign countries’ legislation insisting on grading animal products. These countries were all Britain’s competitors. By grading they were able to put on the British markets animal products of so uniform a quality and even weight, that they obtained a reputation for a reliable standard article, which won tho confidence of tho public, to such extent that consumers frequently insist on having certain products of those countries, m preference to similar home products, particularly New Zealand lamb and butter, Canadian cheese, Argentine beef, and Danish eggs.

COMING HOME. SUVA, Sept. 6. The liner Aorangi which arrived here • from Vancouver, for'Auckland, has on board Sir Joseph Ward, lorn Heeney, the boxer, his wife and his three brothersj/whilst Major Clive and Mrs J. Osko are passengers from Suva for Sydney on their honeymoon. . Tom Heeifby, the New Zealand boxer, and his wife and three brothers, arrived at Suva aboard the “Aorangi” and are the guests at Suva of the Hon and Mrs Alport Barker. Hie New Zealanders resident at Suva made Tom Heeney a presentation at tho Town Hall yesterday afternoon, and he was farowclled by one of the largest crowds that’ever assembled on tho wharf, including tho seamen of’ the cruiser “Dunedin,” who performed a hakn. '' LONDON’S DEATH TOLL. LONDON, Sept.. G. Three are killed daily in London street accidents, to the latest statistics, the deaths in 1927 totalled 1001.

ORDER FOR STEEL! (Received ibis day at 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Tlie superior quality of British steel has won Tyneside the biggest contract for several years. Dormanlang’s state they have received the South African Government’s order for 41,000 tons of rails. It is recalled that South Africa’s last railway order was placed in Germany on account of the cheapness, but it proved uneconomical, compared with the harder wearing though costlier British materials. The same

reasons are filling .Britisn y _ shipyards. Ten out of Hariand and * "Wolff’s and fourteen Belfast shipyards are filled with over .a quarter of a million tons of new shipping. A majority of these ships are for foreign owners.

FIRE UNDER CONTROL. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m A LONDON, Sept. 0. The Cnstlemoor’s captain wirelessed the owners yesterday that he thinks the fire is controlled and; it may not l>e necessary to put in at Albany, six hundred miles distant. . It will depend on circumstances.

SOVIET DECISION. MOSCOW,' Sept. G. The Soviet Government lias announced adhesion to the Kellogg Pact.

RUSSIAN MILITARY,

(Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) / RIGA, Sept. G.

Leningrad district council of trade unions has sanctioned military manoeuvres and a sham battle by laigc bodies of Leningrad working-men on the evening of 15th September. T rade unions are organising two infantry divisions, composed of their members. Chemical warfare units, tanks and sappers will co-operate under the direction of Tukachivski, commander of the Leningrad military district. It •will take place roughly within a five miles radius of Peterhof, tbs summer residence of Csar, from, which fifteen thousand excursionists will view tlie operations. . .