GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

“DEUTSCHLAND ÜBElt ALLES.” FOREIGNERS BUY MANUSCRIPT CHEAP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN, Sept. 22. Tliere is. indignation in Germany following upon tlie revelation that, at the recent auction,,the original manuscript of “Deutschland Über Alles” was-knocked down .Jto foreign buyers for 73 shillings. INTERNATIONAL BANK. .RUGBY, Sept. 21. Sir Charles Addis and Mr W. T. Layton have been appointed by the Bank of England to be the British members of the organisation committee of the bank for the international settlement of reparations. Sir Charles Addis is a director of th,e Bank of England, and was British representative under the Dawes Reparations scheme. Mr Layton is editor of the “Economist,” and has been prominently concerned with the financial work of the League of Nations. Recently he went to India as financial adviser, to the Simon Commission.- -r: NEW WEATHER RECORD. RAINLESS DAYS IN LONDON. ‘LONDON, Sept. 22. Thirty-one rainless days in succession in London constitutes a weather record /for 71 years. i PACIFIC TOUR BY AN AMERICAN LINER. 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23. Auckland is included in the itinerary of a new Matson liner, the~“Malalo, which goes on a Pacific cruise with the members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. THE OPTIONAL CLAUSE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 24. The Free State Government is disappointed at its failure to get rid of the Privy Council’s jurisdiction, through, the operation of the optional clause, but won’t relax its efforts. It strongly favours the South African proposal for the establishment of a special court for the settlement of inter-common-wealth disputes. Such a court would not be open to the main criticism made against the Privy Council, namely, that it is not an imperially democratic body, since it was founded by the will only of one member of the British Commonwealth, but imposes jurisdiction on all. NEW FILM REGULATIONS. LONDON, September 24. Welcoming New Zealand’s regulations providing for a quota of British films, the “Financial News” points out that the overseas market is more important than ever, owing to the popularity of the “talkies,” tli6 British output of which at present is greatly in excess- of domestic requirements.