GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

GERMAN COLONIES.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, April 23

In the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain told Commander Kenworthy (Labour), that the mandates for the (jleaman colonies, which derived from the Versailles Treaty, and not From the League ol Nations, were de(initely allotted to the existing'holders. H« was not aware ’of any suggestions that any of the mandatories wished to be relieved of their responsibilities. Our position was explained to Germany at Locarno, he said, and it was repeated several times since. In the unlikely event of any Existing mandate being vacated, we should - he prepared to consider the position of Germany with that of any other member of the !/engue, hut the League cannot make any engagement in advance on the strength of such a hypothetical contingency.

CANNED FRUIT.

A BRITISH DEMAND

LONDON, April 23

The “Daily Express” gives prominence to the-fact that Australia in the year 1328 imported twenty millions of can., of Californian fruit, muL that-, meanwhile. Australian fruit-growers vrere exportin'!; to Britain, - with the help of the British Government, Tltmigh they wore unable to .5 apply-tlieir. own market. Yet, it says;' Britain Ims the essentials of a great canning industry i„ the best tin and some of the finest .fruit in fhe world. These, it adds, TTave never been brought effectively together. It considers it both irritating and. grimly humorous that British tin should travel six thousand miles to he filled with the fruit of the,Antipodes and fhe Pacific Coast, and then should be sold in competition with Britain s domestic growers.