GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

WOOL INDUSTRY INQUIRY

United P*-ess Association. — By Electric lo.egrapn. —Copyright.;

LONDON, March 6

The King’s Counsel. .Mr H. P. Macmillan, who with the assistance of employers of the traded unions conducted an inquiry into tile northern wool and textile industry, has issued a report. This recommends a reduction in wgaes on the ground that the, industry is s> dangerously depressed that sacrifices in wages are essential. Mr MacMillan has Iscen made Lord ol Appeal.

VON TIIUWIZ’S DEATH

BERLIN, A larch G

Von Tirpitz had recently been Tailing in memory. He was living unobtrusively in a small house at Lake Klambling. A lew days ago be suffered a sharp) attack of 'bronchitis ami died in a hospital.

INVEST IT UTE HONOURS,

LONDON, Aiarcli 6

Those honoured at the Investiture included - Lieutenant-Colonel Ecc-les, and Air Snowden, Agent-General for Tasmania, who received a Knighthood.

CHINA’S FINANCE

SHANGHAI, March 6

With the silver market continuing giddily upward and with unprecedent low level making Government financial experts frantically seek any and every possible means to alleviate tho worst exchange situation in Shanghai’s history. A ban on the importation of silver has been suggested.

THE SOVIET V. RELIGION,

LONDON, March 7

■ln the House of Lords, Lord Atholl opened a debate the Soviet persecution. He made a vehement attack on the Russian Government.

The Archbishop of Canterbury complained that the Heads of the Church had not been consulted. They were most anxious that no suspicion for political bias should be introduced into the advocacy of religious liberty in Russia. Any political taint would affix a character of political propaganda to prayers which were free from any political intent. Lord Thomson urged the necessity of the Government being above the suspicion of hostile propaganda.

COVENTRY MOTOR MAKERS. LONDON. March 7

'Well-informed people forecast the early amalgamation of several of the big Coventry manufacturers on the lines of American industry, in order to concentrate on the m ass -prod action of light, motor cars for the Home market and on more powerful types for the markets overseas.

HATRY’S MANSION,

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 7

Hatrv’s West End mansion, described by the auctioner as one of the most fashionable in Europe, was withdrawn from the sale when the bidding reached fifty thousand five hundred sterling.

REDUCED TO POVERTY

VIENNA, March 7. Arch Duchess .Maria Theresa, sis-ter-in-law of the late Emperor Francis Joseph, who it was reported received only 1454 sterling for Napoleon’s necklace .valued at eighty thousand sterling, lives in two rooms, reduced almost to poverty and old age.