GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

FKEIGHT INCREASES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, January 10. No official announcement of freight increases will he made, blit inquiry among shippers shows the billowing are among the principal alterations:— Rough measurement is raised from 70s to 80s per ton ; five 100 sto 110 s; lower classes measurement 00s to Ofis and 70s. Steel and iron remain unaltered. Other weight rates are raised 10s to 12s (id and Jos. The following remain unaltered—motor ears, agricultural implements, wire netting, newsprint, cement in casks, also a number ol other minor commodities. EARL HOWE DEAD. ■ LONDON, Jllll. 10. Obituary—Earl Howe. This, death creates a vacancy in the Commons, as Viscount Cur/.on AI.P. for Battersea, succeeds to the Peerage. SEAMEN’S DEATH RATE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11. Ernest Ervin (Secretary of the Transport Workers Union) and officials of the marine section thereof sharply criticised the seamen’s working conditions as responsible for the highest death-rate ill any class of workers. The legal'minimum space per sailor is 120 cubic feet. Lockers and fittings reduce this to eighty-eight. A workhouse inmate gets 410 and a convict 800.

Official figures showing that sailors death-rate is more serious than miners, do not indicate the full difference because sick sailors seeking jobs ashore are not classed as mariners when they die.

James Henson declares seamen’s mortal it v is 48.8 per centum and accident death-rate 43.0 per centum above the average. 221 sailors die of 1 nbonulosis compared with every il2 miners. INDIAN AFFAIRS. (Received this dav at 8 a.til.) DELHI. Jan. 11. The annual report of the northwestern frontier province shows immense progress in pacification as the result of the British policy of peaceful penetration through the extension of first class roarls. Nothing, writes Bolton. Chief Commissioner, is more syn(helical of the change in tribesmen's viewpoint, than the increasing requests for Government intervention in purely tribal matters. Muhmhad women have the advantages of pax Britanniea as reducing crime and border fends saving their men folk as carriers.

A trackless train is on show at Calcutta. GREYHOUND RACING BUBBLE. LONDON. Jan. 1,1. Dealing with the greyhound racing bubble, the “Daily News” reveals that hundreds of small ’investors despair at recovering their money, sometimes their life’s savings. The Greyhound Racing Association Trust’s report discloses a. sorry state of affairs. -Companies sprang up like mushrooms and shares soared dizzily, but now are worth in some cases few pence. OBITUARY. LON DO, Jan. 11. Obituary—William AVcddcl, meat importer. FREIGHT INCREASES. LONDON, January IT. Additional increases in freights are: Paper not otherwise enumerated, in bales, reels, and rolls, (Jos to f>2s (Id) in cases Oils to Kills; flat ill cases Jos to 70s; wrapping in cases 7Js to Bos; bales Jos to fiJs.