GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

POPPY DAY SALES,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 13. Poppy Day collections were expected to achieve a record. There were JO] million emblems sold, the total since 1921 being 265(r millions. AN OIL TENDER. LONDON, November 13. The “Daily Express” says:—“The British Electrical Federation, which controls huge transport cargo in England placed a tender for twenty million gallons of petrol from Russian oil products owing to a cut-in prices. The value is in the neighbourhood of £BOO,OOO. The “Daily Express” describes this as the beginning of a new oil war. SALVATION ARMY. LONDON, Nov. 13. At the Snlnyajdon Ar/py Conference, a resolution was passed that no General shall appoint his successor, but that the successor shall be elected. The General will have no power to nominate a flucoessor, but he may advise the electing body, if the majority request such a course. RAILWAY DISTUR BANC®. CALCUTTA, November 14. When the police attempted to make arrests following the disturbance at the locomotive workshops in East Indian. Railway 'at ‘ JaiVmlpur in the Bihar Province, a crowd of Indian Workers tried to mob the police, who opened fire killing two men and injuring seventeen, . ,