AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ARGENTINE STRIKE. United P’-ess Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BUENOS AYRES, July.2B. A general strike was proclaimed at Rosario in sympathy with the dock workers who have ceased work. / CANADIAN WHEAT POOL. t OTTAWA, July 28. Mr Ramsay has officially announced that the Canadian wheat pools initial payment for the 1929 crop has been fixed at oiie dollar -per bushel. A dollar per bushel has been the initial price paid by the pool since the Canadian pool formed in 1924, with the exception of last year when the initial payment was lowered to eight cents. ' ‘‘We are satisfied that the step then taken by our central board has been amply justified by market developments during recent months.” NAVAL BUILDING. (Received this dav at 12.25. p.m.l WASHINGTON, July 29. . The final outcome of naval limitation discussions is expected by the United States experts to leave at least twothirds of the fifteen cruisers programme intact. As they see it, at least ten of the contemplated ten-thousand-ton vessels will be built, under an arrangement reached in carrying out an agreement between United States and Britain on the principle of absolute equality in the fighting strength of their navies with all kinds of cra'ft considered.