GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

FLOODS IN KOREA

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(Received this dav at 8 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, July 14

Fifteen thousand homes are reported inundated, 78 persons drowned and hundreds injured or missing in floods in the provincial district of Korea.

REFUSED ADMISSION

(Received this dav at 9:40 a.m.)

LONDON, July 14.

The “Daily Herald” says the Home Office has instructed the port authorities to refuse admittance to the New York producer, Ear Carroll, in the event of his attempting to land in Britain.

THE WOOI. POSITION

(Received this day at. 10.30 a.m.\ CAPETOWN, July 14.

The manager of the Farmers’ Cooperative Union, who has returned from England states the wool position indicated brighter prospects. He anticipated a more consistent demand owing to the cheapening of wool fibres which are becoming more popular than artificial silk.

CANCER CAMPAIGN

LONDON. July 14

The Duke of York, presiding at the nr l vl meeting said the Empire Citn.Co: ;campa)ign. was .gjohig forward slowly but surely. Among the most important developments was the for matiou of branch councils throughout Britain, and extending to the Dominions, thus establishing new research centres all over the Empire. In, Australia and New Zealand there were now four of those important centres well staffed and organised as a result of the national radium fund Sir Gordon Watson said while it was not claimed that the campaign had won a great victory, there was no reasonable doubt that victory was much nearer. undoubtedly the results of radium treatment were improving steadily, notably the skin, womb, and mouth The meeting appointed Sir T. Wilword as New Zealand’s representative. The Grand Council headquarters campaign experiments indicated the suggestion that tolbacco smoking causes cancer is unfounded.