GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

DOPE 'TRAFFIC. NEED TO CHECK PRODUCTION (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). GENEVA, Jan. 26. The British delegate, Sir Malcolm Delebengne, at a meeting of the League' of Nations Opium Commission, drew attention to the fact that a Dutch factory had in 1927 imported illicitly nearly two tons of heroin and fifteen hundred weight of morphine, as well as other drugs sent to them from all parts of the world. So much heroin would have been sufficient to satisfy Britain’s needs for twelve years. The Commission came to the conclusion that the only way to control the traffic in harmful drugs is to find a means of limiting the production, and it has decided to ask the League Council to devise a plan. AT A NIGHT CLUB. RUDYARD KIPLING. LONDON, Jan. 26. “Im am not used to this,” said R-ud-vard Kipling after a visit to ‘‘The lv'mbassay,” a- well-knmvn niglit club, in the small hours of the morning. He arrived about 11 o’clock, and sat on the balcony watching fashionable people dancing, and perhaps maturing a satire on modern society amusements. A hall porter persuaded Kipling, as he left, to sign the Visitors’ Book, which includes the names of many European royalties. ‘‘This is a, very nice place,” said Kipling on a page already containing the author, Sir J. M. Barrie’s signature. He did not explain whether his cryptic phrase referred to the night club or to the precise page in the visitors’ hook. A LEGAL POINT. DALGETY’S INCOME TAN. LONDON, Jan. <25. Mr Justice Rowlatt, of the King’s Beiicli Division, allowed an appeal by the Crown on a. case, stated by the Inland Revenue Commissioners in which Dalgety and Coy. Ltd. claimed relief respecting Domiiiion income tax for the years 1916-24. The point was whether the amount on which relief was due was the entire profits earned in Australia and New Zealand on the balance after deducting the excess of the interest paid on the company’s debentures over the amount of income arising in the United Kingdom. The [Crown appealed against the Commissioner’s decision that the Company was entitled to relief respecting the entire Australian and New Zealand profits. Mr Justice Rowlatt held that income charged with the payment of interest borne dutiable tax only so far as it exceeded the interest paid thereupon. N.Z. CONVERSION OFFER, (Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) /LONDON. Jan. 28. Tn respect to New Zealand’s conversion offer, cabled on Bth January, applications were received for/ approximately eleven and three-quarter millions of 4$ per cent stock. AN APPOINTMENT. ' ' ' LONDON ,v January 28. LONDON, Jan. 28. Captain Cyril Benson, lias been recommended as captain of Jervis Bay College.MUTINEER’S NATIONALITY. Jackson, Jervis Bay mutineer is believed to be of Australian /birth, according to a cable from the Prime Minister, Mr BruCe.