GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

VOLUNTARY STARVATION

(United Preso Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

PARIS, Nov. 27

Doctor Meval, a noted physician and traveller, died in the village of La-motto after sixty days voluntary starvation, despite the entreaties of fellow physicians, friends and a devoted old servant, who' cooked the most tempting dishes, all in vain. There is no clue to the motive.

BUTTER FAT,

CANADIAN CONCERN

OTTAWA, Nov. 26

Mr J. A. Oalder, former President of the National Dairy Council, declared in a statement to-day that the reason why Australian (butter can compete on the Canadian market is because it is supported bv a bounty of about nine cents for every pound exported, thus giving the Australian exporter a leeway in price-cutting. Conversations on the subject have been intiated overseas between the Canadian Minister of Markets, and Hon. Mr Parker Moloney (Australian Minister of Agriculture), and they will he continued here, when Mr Moloney’ arrives next -week. -Mr Moloney will subsequently, tour the Dominion.

SURPLUS' SUGAR,

LONDON, Nov. 27

Dining a debate raised by Lord Olivier in the House of Lords on the Crisis in the West Indies sugar industry, trOi'd Passfield said that it was difficult to expect any rise in the price of sugar, so long as the present world accumulation of stocks remained. Regarding sugar preference, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Air Snowden, had made it clear that it was not his intention to withdraw the existing preference of £3 15s per ton foi the next three years.

NEW P. AND 0. LINERS

FOR' AUSTRALIAN RUN

LONDON, Nov. 26

The P. and 0. Company has decided to build two 21,000-tonners for its Australian trade. They will he named the Strathnavar and the Strathaird. They will have buff .funnels, and white upiperworks and lifcboatts, with white hulls from the rail to the, waterline, ; and. red bottopping. The Strathnavar is expected to be ready for sea in the. autumn of 1931.

PERUVIAN RISING.

CONSTANT STREET FIGHTING

NEW YORK, November 26. Private .advices from Lima state there is grave trouble in the Peruvian capital, with constant fighting in the streets and gunfire in parts of the city.

•It is .said that several perosns have been executed by orders of the Government, and that the Government is holding its own with difficulty. A strict censorship is. being observed. WELL KNOWN CRICKETER. (Received this day at 9 a LONDON, November 27. Obituary T. Tyldesley the cricketer. N.Z. BUTTER IMPORTERS. APPEAL FOR SALE. /Received this dav at 9. a.m.! LONDON, November 27.

Now Zealand Butter Importers Association resolved to advertise and urge the trade to push the sale of Dominon butter, pointing out that seventy thousand dairy farmers will he faced with ruin, if the present prices 'are riontimiied,. It expressed the opinion that the existing retail price of fourteen pence hacl stimulated consumption and . practically cleared the old accumulation, giving a better prospect for impending heavy arrivals on 'a market controlled by the law of supply and demand. It also adopted a resolution expressing the opinion that any attempt at artificial control like price fixation, would 'accentuate the difficulties. It is understood that a similar campaign is contemplated on behalf of Australian butter.