GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

FEDERAL CAPITAL. I United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j LONDON, April 0. The newspaper, ‘‘Daily Herald,’’ features a cable from Canberra under the heading "Australia’s White Elephant Capital.’’ It says:—"At Present Canberra is one of the most desosent Australia is one of the most desolate spots ill the world. The majority of it.s five thousand population are civil servants, who are living under the shadow of the axe. The development has been abandoned and its bou levards are deserted.” CAPE TRAM STRIKE. CAPETOWN, April 9. Non-Unionist tram and bus men decided to join the Union at midnight. Thereby they terminated the four day’s tram and bus strike here. The public were- not inconvenienced owing to the fact that the strikers have been running free buses, and to the kindness of motorists. JAP POLITICS. TOK 10, April !). The resignation of the Premier ol Japan, Mr Mamaguehi, who has been ailing since his attempted assassination, has been decided upon, AIR. AVAIL ARRIVES (Received this day at 10 n.m.) ALEXANDRIA, April !>. 'File Australian air mail lias arrived. ORAE ZEI’PELTN LEAVES. FRI EDRJOH'SHAVEN, April 9. Squadron. Leader .Booth, Commander of RlOl, is among twenty-five passengers on the Oral Zeppelin, which lias left for Cairo. TOBACCO DUTY. RUGBY, April 9. A request that the preferential duty on Empire tobacco should be fixed at three fourths of the duty on the foreign leaf, lias been made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Air Philip Snowden) by the ’lobaeco lederation of the British Empne.