GENERAL CABLES
A FAIRY GODMOTHER, LADY RYDER’S ACIVITIES. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 28. Described as a “ Fairy Godmother ” to thousands o'f friendless undergraduates and students from all over the Empire, Lady Frances Ryder, C.8.E., has taken larger offices in the New Zealand Government’s buiding in tho Strand, says the “Dispatch.” Lady i»,yder greatly assisted in the entertainment of overseas soldiers in wartime. She lias since organised hospitality for Dominions’ students, whom she has enabled to see English home life, especially at Christmas time, by introductions to a large circle of hostesses throughout Britain. SALE OF MUNITIONS. ALARM IN FRANCE. PARIS, September 26. Many newspapers are alarmed at the auction that will take place on October 11 of Allied war-time munitions, that include 8,000,000 cartridges and 30,000. rifles.
The conditions stipulate that only French people can buy then, but they must be exported to Belgium within a year. The papers ask: Whatsis, there to prevent' the munitions finally going to Morocco, Syria or Russia? Would it not "be better' to dump the lot into the ocean ? .
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 6
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