GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

IM'l 1R CO A L CRISIS. HIXIXENRURG TAKE© A HAND. 11 niU‘(| Press Association—% Eieotri. Telegraph—Copyright 1 COLOGNE, .lan-. 9. hi view of the Ruhr colliery deadlock President, von 'fttiuMyu.rg has signed an emergency decree ovorcomi ng* the present necessity- by - enabling the appointment bl' a speed a 1 artuitratioii body-. erapawnh to- call in two independent; assessors’ and give an award, which Lhe Labour Minister will immediately make compulsory. lhe publication of the award is expected to take place on January Kith. WORLD POPULATION'. / decline predicted. c «,ROME> jail. 9. Thai the world has reached the point of saturation in . population, and that henceforth there must 'he rotrogie>sion in population, is the opinion of Professor 'Oini, the President of the Italian Statistical Bureau. Taking a world index of one thousand for women, he says 911 are horn in France, 1 BJtUi.ii. Gxianainy-830 in- Britain, urn! 1010 in Denmark. There are [seventeen countries.'exuding' 1010. which include Italy. Russia, Australia and New Zealand. BRAZIL’S RHQ [JEST? FOR XEI MEYER’S ADVICE. LONDON, Jan. 9. Tile Brazilian Government . has invited Sir Otto Niemeyer thither to advise in eon n eat ion, .with .the reconstruction of the Bank of Brazil as an orthodox central hank on indenendon 4 lines, monetary reform,: stabilisation of exchange, maintenance of the budget figures, liptitation of foreign • borrowing. ’ANOLO-ER KXCH COJtPKRATIDX. NO UNDER,STANDING. ' PAR 1.4, .Jan. ,10. ... .rules’Saulenveiii. writing in “Le Matin ” says:—“ The recent .eonversaI,ions’ between the British and French linaiicfaT experts have not resulted in anv specific imdrrstamling.'’The ■ British experts have refused in give their direct co-oneration with'- the French market, and have asked lb" Bank of International Settlement to fake up the problem. FORCED LABOUR. AT TIMBER CAMPS. LONDON. Jan. IT The Anti-Slavery Aboi'i'die's’ Protection Sovietv has instituted an in quiry into the allegations of forced labour, also of cruelly and nl slaverp in lhe Russian limber ramus.