GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

N.Z. MEAT BOARD

[United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright],

LONDON, Jan. 8. The New Zealand Meat Board prosecuted a Bradford butcher shop a

a manager for selling Argentine lamb as New Zealand. Each were fined £5.

SHARES DEBENTURES. LONDON, January 9

According to the newspaper “Fairplay” shares and debentures in all shipping companies. j)iave a nominal value of 117 million sterling. Highest quotations in 1929 gave a value ol millions but prices at December 31st represented only million showing a paper loss of thirty million where as thirty British Jiners companies paid an average dividend of 6.26 per cent, in 1929. Seventy three cargo boat companies paid 5.12 per cent. Of the cargo companies twenty seven did not pay the dividend and twenty-eight failed to provide for depreciation out of earning.

AUTOGRAPH HUNTER,

PARIS, Jan. 7

Antoine Hauptmann, the “autograph lung” has returned after thrice encircling the world for the sole purpose or collecting autographs. His volume contains three thousand, comprising those of eight kings, ten presidents, fifty field marshalls, twenty-two prime ministers, sixty oriental potentates, tnirty-tour cardinals, three hundred diplomats. As an afterthought Haupmann mentions an imposing list of exclusive mere celebrities such as G. B. Shaw and Einstein. He says his object is to enable himself with the proceeds of the sale of the book to settle down and study philosophy.

A LARGE ESTATE. LONDON, Jan. 9. Joint Gremc Thomson, director of Baton and Baldwin iefit ail estate valued at £191,942 sterling. CHICHESTER'S WIFE. LONDON, Jan. 10. Chichester, writing from Tripoli, mentions that ho found news of his wife’s death in Malta newspapers, the only journals in English available.

INDIAN AGITATOR. DELHI, Jan. 9

Gandhi has issued a message in which he says a complete independence resolution need frighten nobody. To natives of India a Dominion status, coiißl only .mean la (partnership at will for mutual benefit, dissolvable at the will of either partner.

OBITUARY. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Obituary.—EchVa.rd William Bok editor and author.