GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

X.Z. PRODUCE

.United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON. April 20. At a ceremony at Manchester on the arrival of the Surrey with a record cargo "I New Zealand produce, Sir T. Willoi - d trenchantly pointed out New Zealand's trade went to southern ports he.-ause Manchester wanted goods sent on consignment, thus putting tho tisk of the market on producers. Man clioster must purchase as others did if a business was to lie Uni To up. )) |ST R ESS V. I) A USTR AL l A XS, (Received 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 20. No less than 275 distressed Australians have sought help from Austialia House since Ist .January., and have driven the officials to their wits end. how to help them. There is now iu> benevolent 'fund for those in distress who even include tourists unable to get remittances. At least halt a dozen have drifted to workhouses. 1, 011don County Council found it cheaper to repatriate, than maintain them, so is shipping them to Australia, third class, at the ratepayers expense. There are many others shunning the workhouses, preferring real hardship. These pin their hope to working their passages to Australia, hut the shipping depression lias restricted this means ol escape. SOVIET AND SPAIN. ■LONDON. April 20. The “Aforviiiig Post” states .Moscow is actively exploiting the Spanish Revolution. The Communist International has decid’d to mobilise all Spanish speaking Communists and despatch them to Spain. It is also sending an adequate sum to finance the Communist party. The “Prnvda” states Communists are mobilising a million workers to fight fin- Soviet Spain.