GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

MEETING OF CREDITORS, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, December 12. At a meeting of creditors and shareholders of the Corporation and General Secureties, the official receiver said the company had issued corporation and colonial loans totalling twenty-three and half a million, one of which it had. sustained a gross loss of £157,909. In reply to a shareholder’s question the Marquis of Winchester said discord had displaced confidence in the integrity o'f the company’s officers, but behind directors backs of which it was impossible tne veould have been aware.

STRIKE BREAKERS. JAP BOY SCOUTS. TOIvIO, December 13. In' view of the frequency of strikes inconveniencing the citizens, the authorities have adopted a novel proposal, whereby the boy scouts’ regular Gaining will include both train and car driving service, allowing lor mobilisation emergencies.

HATRY CASE. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 14. In the Hatry ease the prosecuting counsel-said it had been decided not to prefer any further charges against any of the defendants, but would ask the Magistrate to commit all on forty-six charges on Monday. NO PRESS COMMENT. LONDON, December 14. Not a single London newspaper has wasted a single space on the Chicago Tribune’s stupid story that Mr MacDonald would provide an initial sensation at the Naval Conference by proposing the entire abolition of battleships. It is officially declared there is no semblance of truth in the suggestion. AIR CONTROL. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) BERLIN, December 13. The Traffic Ministry has introduced a bill in the Reichstag for the control of air traffic. It provided that an aeroplane overtaking another must pass to the left. When the paths of the two planes cross the machine coming from the left must give way. Planes must give way to airships, balloons and gliding planes. A height of not less than six hundred feet must be maintained over crowds and bridges.