GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

! COLONIALS AT -OXFORD.

WOMEN’S CLUB STARTED.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, Nov. 25

Admiral Mark Kerr opened Foxcombe Hall, at Oxford, w-hieli will be the centre of overseas conferences of women, Men may. be members. It is hoped that this Club -\W 11*' be the centre of the Dominion interests at Oxford, where overseas viators can congregate. The clubhouse was the icsidenco of the Earl of Berkeley.

BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED

LONDON, Nov. 25

“It is not only uneconomic and unfair. but it is against the nation’s interests, for women to work for what they call ‘pin money,’ and so deprive other people of legitimate work,” said the Rt. Hon J. H. Thomas, Member of the Labour Cabinet when addressing a Brotherhood meeting at Harlcsdon. '-There ib also something morally wrong’.’ s he added, • ‘ ‘when pensioned workers, who are assured of a decent living, deprive others of work.” ; i J fl) SHORT SKIRTS; : •'

z Ti ■•'A’ TITLED - DEFENDER:

LONDON;, November, go

V , “JlJogioal as we .women, ~,ai:e. -offpj) said to.’He,•'.our;Gohimon sense will never again allow us to sacrifice healthy to .fashion,“ after our l delightfuj .taste ofc freedom,” says the Marchioness of QueenSburyj 'ifi a letter' to to-day’s “ Daily Mail.” She continues: “Sensible, comfortable clothes are an asset to women’s participation in the lives of men, if they are not a direct result of our independence. I advise women to band together to resist the reintroduction of ground-sweeping skirts.”

NEW FILM CENSOR. RUGBY, Nov. 22

v, Mr Edward Shortt, a former Home Secretary, has been appointed' film .Censor in succession'to the late Mr T. P. O’Connor; . f r .; : J ,r' Mr . Shortt represented. Newcastle West as a Liberal from T'O’lo to 1922, ,'and, ; in athltliofi 'td fioldhig the' office ||)f H6me Secretary^:the 'Liberal GovIfernpient, B he.,. -\yas v ioiv on§. j;Q‘UV CJii,ef Secretary tor Ireland. LIVERPOOL BY-ELECTION. LATE MR T. P. O’CONNOR'S SEAT RUGBY, Nov. 22. It is understood that the Labour candidate is likely to be unopposed in the by-election for th© Liverpool seat * rendered ' vacant by the deaf h of Mi" T. P. O’-Connoy, MfV.O’Conjior. sat...as. ah .Iris}! his containing a large proportion of Irish workers. ...