GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

trade; returns. (United Press Association—By Electric ' ',!■. Telegraph-Copyright). LONDON; March 12. ; Board of Trade returns show imports decreased £7,503,000 exports £1,571,000 re-exports £136,400. The principal decreases of imports were grain and flour £957,000,' noddutiable food and drink £805,000, raw wool £1795,000 hides and skins £785,000; iron steel •manufacture's £768,000; leather; £B9/000. Increases in imports of oils, fats £729,000; exports of Iron steel manufactures £473,000. PROPOSED ROCKET. LONDON, March 12. •It is reported that engineers and physicists connected with Leningrad Instiutte of Ways of Communication have formed a group to investigate the construction and propulsion of a rocket capable of communicating between the earth and celestial bodies. LABOUR DEBATE. LONDON, March 12.

In the course of International Labour office debate on Washington eight hours 'convention, Jouhasc (trance) threatened to demand a revision of the clauses governing labour conditions in India if the convention were revised. Sir Abdul Chatterjce (India) retorted “Until Europe sets its own house in order it cannot^ expect better industrial conditions elsouheic.

WIRELESS MERGER

LONDON, March 12

At a meeting of Marconi' International.: Marine, Kel.leway presiding, a meijfl>?r was agreed on in principle between Denison and Pender in Nei iforth a year .ago, was now practically completed/ ' It is' anticipated before many weeks the companies will be able to invite shareholders to exchange holdings into shares in what will he one of the most powerful industrial concerns in the country.

GERMAN LINER WRECKED

SHANGHAI, March 13,

The Nord Deutcher Lloyd steamer “Giessen” was totally wrecked on Button rock, 80 miles from Shanghai, late on Tuesday night. The vessel came from Hamburg. Tt is* believed * she was hot carrying passengers. She struck the rock in a treacherous part of the Yangtse during a fog. Her back was broken. Some of the crew took- refuge on the rock. Others took to the borits and were pickfxl up by the Panc-o Khiva, .outward bound from Shanghai. It- is believed no lives were lost.

MOTOR COMBINE. BERLIN, March 13

' An agreemenit is aboiit to l/c signed by which the General Alotors will take over the Opel Company, Hie largest ear manufacturers in Germany.

MEDICAL ARTICLES LONDON, March 13.

Tli© General Medical Council, hitherto strongly opposed to signed articles by medical men in the public press, has approved of the issue of a series of weekly articles under the auspices of the Society by medical officers of health. The first, which deal with influenza, is signed by Dr William Ravage, medical officer of the Comity of Somerset. NEW U.S.A. PRESIDENT. LONDON, March 13. President Hoover is of German descent. “This has satisfactorily been proved at least in Germany,” says “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent, who quotes the '“Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung” as saving that the American Heraldic Society has established that Mr Hoover descends in a direct line from one Andreas Huber, who was horn at Badenbaden, and who emigrated to America in 1740, where he settled in Maryland. -