GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

GERMAN DYE DISCOVERY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) . LONDON, June 28. The “Times” Frankfort correspondent states:—The German Dye Trust is reported to have discovered and developed scientific tanning material, which is expected to revolutionise the world’s markets, obviating, the need of importing expensive vegetable products from which tanning, materials are mostly derived and ...Which was chiefly responsible for the rise in the price of, leather during recent y*ars. 'At:

SCOUT PRESENTATION. • .-H'v. (Received this day at 8' a.m.) LONDON, June 28. A worldwide scouts penny fund to give, on the movement’s coming of ago, a present to Sir R. Batlen-Powell, was so well responded to that he receives at the Jamboree on 10th August, a Rolls Royce car, caravan trailer and a cheque. The first contribution came ex Siam. GERMAN DUTY. BERLIN, June 28. - The Reichstag passed laws increasing the import duty of wheat to the equivalent of 65 per cent per hundred kilograms. NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED. LONDON, June 28. The University of London has awarded R. M. Campbell, of Wellington, a doctorate, for his thesis in criticism of imperial preference. Campbell was recently granted a Commonwealth fellowship and travels for two years in the United States.