GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

IN THE COMMONS

BUDGET RESOLUTION CARRIED,

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LONDON, May 7

In the Commons after an acrimonious debate the Budget resolutions weip carried and the Finance. Bill was read the first time. In one of the numerous divisions the Government majority fell to thirty.

OBITUARY

LONDON, May 6

Obituary.—At Lisbon, Rev. Charles Dobson, a New Zealander, and a Chaplain of St. George’s Church, who gained the distinction of assisting Greeks and other refugees to escape the Turks, also for services in a great fire at Smyrna.

RUSSIAN REFUGEES. LONDON, May 7

The London Gazette contains the names of forty Russians who have become naturalised British * subjects. They mostly are refugees fearing penalites if they return to Russian.

BRITISH TAXATION. LONDON, May 6

In the House of Commons, Rt. Hon. P. -Snowden (Chancellor of the Exchequer)’, in answer to questions, said that last year the- percentage of indirect taxation in Britain was 35.82 per cent., while the direct taxation amounted to 64.18 per ''cent, of the total. Under the budget the respective figures were: Indirect taxation 34.07 per cent.; direct taxation 64.93 per cent.

PRESIDENT HOOVER

RECEIVES A SET-BACK

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 7

President Hoover suffered his first major defeat in Congress when the Senate; by a vote of 39 to 41, did not accept the nomination of John Parker (North Carolina) a jurist for justice of the United States Supreme Court. It- was the first rejection of such a nominee in thirty-six years, and was due chiefly to the bitter opposition of organised labour and negro organisations. Despite th o strenuous efforts by Hoover’s lieutenants the Senate declined to accept the designation.