GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

political. United Press Association —By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright > . (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) LONDON, ”ov. 5. Sir Robert Hutchinson ; who voted against the Government last night in defiance of the party 'decision, has resigned the position of Chief Liberal AVhip. AIR SGULLIN. LONDON, Nov. 5. Referring to a message from Australia, indicating the possibility of the Commonwealth Bank creating a then ty million credit* for loan work Air Scullin' said tlie ’Federal Government and the Commonwealth Bank can confidently he relied on not to Jo anything that would weaken tlie position of the bank, or injure Australia as a whole. * NOBEL.. PRIZE. STOCKHOLAI, Nor. 5. The-Nobel literature prize for 1930 has been awarded *to tlife ..American, .Sinclair Lewis. AVHEAT POOL. (Received this day at 9.39 a.m.) OTTAWA, Nov. 5. A report from AVinnipcg states Manitoba wheat pool mnventi.m adopted a resolution urging the Government to erect legislation for compulsory wheat marketirig through the pool. The need of immediate fiction against independents was stressed. An alternative suggested wap that the Government was hound to merchandise all grain as in war time.

AN EPIDEMIC. OTTAWA, Nov. 5. A message frolffi Brandon states the discovery of thirteen; hundred cases of trachoma among Russian .. Memiohite settlers is creating an epidemic alarm. The Government in opening eleven clinics. GOVERNOR-GENERAL, QUESTION OF APPO7NTAIENT. LONDON, November 5. The “Times” in a leader, says so few formal links are left that circumspection must be used in tarnperiug with them further. Certainly the link will be severed if the Dominion’s Governor-General were merely to become the nominee of tlie Dominion Government, which is in power at the time of the appointment There seems to be an impression that the Dominions Governor General is a. lay figure affixing his signature like a rubber stamp to ministerial documents. No conception could be more erroneous. The Governor-General represents the King, acting as his Majesty would if lie resided in the Dominion., It does not follow that the Dominion Government should give up a voice in selecting a, Governor-General. There ought to he ho difficulty in mutually arranging a- satisfactory choice. MAJOR THOAISON. RUGBA T , November 3. Tlie death has occurred of Major Thomson, brother of Lord Thomson, tire late .Secretary for Air. Major /Thomson, who age was sixty-eight years, was seriously ill when the RlOl disaster occurred. He never rallied from the shock of his brother’s death.