GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

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LONDON, February 2(5

Pay mas ter-Lieu tenant Commander R. .1. Lethbridge lias been lent to the Australian Navv as secretary to Evans.

WHOOPING COUGH SERUM. BERLIN. February 26

Scientists at Jena University claim they have invented a serum for whooping cough. Of seventy children inoculated. with the serum and brought into contact with acute cases, only lour were infected with whooping cough.

COMMONER DEAD. LONDON. February 1 26. Obituary.—The Commoner, Jacon. lie is the fifth member of the House of Commons to die during February. QUESTION IN COMMONS. LONDON, February 2(5. In tin* Commons, Mr King in reply to a question said they must await the return voyage of the Horn rata before full information regarding the results of pulverisc-d fuel would be available. WOOL SALES. LONDON, Feb. 26. The wool sales will open on the sth. of .March. There are 114,000 bales available, of which 95,500 are new arrivals, including 4-9,000 from New Zealand. NEW LINER LAUNCHED. LONDON, Feb. 26. / In the midst of driving rain, Lady Anderson, wife of the Chairman of the Orient Company, christened the o routes, the finest Orient liner ever built at Vickers Armstrong famous yards. This is tbe fifth 20,000 ton liner launched within live years. The Ornntcs is (561 ft. by 75ft. and is designed fur the Australian service. She incorporates many improved details and lias accommodation for 1,600 passengers. A NEW CHAIRMAN. LONDON, Fob. 26. iho National .Union of Conservative Associations elected C. Rowlands, a working ma.n who spent many years in the Welsh Coal mines, as Chairman. He succeeds the millionaire Commoner, Colonel Gretton. Rowlands comes from a hotbed of Socialism in the Rhonda Valley. He is the first chairman from the ranks of the Conservative working men. FOCH’S CONDITION GRAVE. PARIS. Fob. 26. Marshal Foeli’s condition is extremely grave. A bulletin signed by live physicians .states his temperature is dangerously high and his pulse feeble. TRADES UNION DECISION. LONDON, February 27. Trades Union general council after a discussion of over three hours accepted the employers organisations invitation to confer, ft is understood the council is reserving a decision regarding future action until more fully informed of tbe nature, scope and objects of the deliberations, which the employers contemplate. There is at present- no decision to adandon Conferences with Melclietts groupe of employers. Meanwhile the council adopted a few modifications of the Moml Turner joint committees draft interim report on unemployment, which is being suhniited to the T. U. 0. and Melclietts group.