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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1931, Page 6

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WHALING INTERESTS.

PROPOSAL AT GENEVA

GENEVA, September 27

The Assembly of the League or Nations is expected not to oppose a convention to license whaling interests. The convention will prohibit the killing of whale calves and females accompanied by young. EGYPT’S SALVAGE. SHILLING AN!) A BIBLE. LONDON, September 20. “The first coin salvaged from the Egypt is a shilling, dated 1918.” So reports the special representative <u hoard the salvage steamer Artiklio, which is seeking to recover the £I,OOO, _ 000 in gold bullion from the wreck of the P. and 0. liner Egypt, sunk in a collision in 1922 at a. depth of 400 loot off the coast of Franco.

“It was found (the report, states) among the debris on the roof of the bullion room. This deln-is included part of a rat-gnawed Bible, -’containing the story of David and Jonathan, which is easily legible since the pages were dried.”' '

HELPING REBELS. GUN RUNNING IN CUBA. LONDON, September 20, The small German steamer, Falke, renamed the Isle Vormaurcr, tvhie!i played a prominent part in the attempted Venezuelan revolution in 1929 as a gunrunner, is again reported to have been discovered by a Cuban gunboat trying to run arms for Chilian revolutionaries. She escaped after a. chase, if is stated, and took refuge, in a hay in the Bahamas. It is recalled that the Falke attempted to land General Delgada in Venezuela, hut failed, the general being shot. The present owner of the Falke, a Hamburg merchant named Vormauer, disclaims responsibility for the ship’s latest, exploit,. states the Berlin correspondent- of “The Times.” CURIO GANG. “MIND YOUR MANTELPIECE.” LONDON. September 24. “Guard your mantelpieces” is a warning issued to West End householders owning Adam and other valuable mantelpieces^.in consequence of the latest series of thefts by an international gang believed to he executing commissions from American dealers. Scotland Yard believes that the gang is provided with a'list of empty houses containing Adam which are worth as much as CBOO apiece. The thieves, dressed in overalls, remove the marble in numbered sections, which are shipped to America in suitcases. Upon arrival the sections are reassembled and sold to connoisseurs.

BRITISH TARIFF. FRENCH RETAELATION URGED. LONDON, September 26. M. Etienne Fougere, president of th R National Association for Economic Expansion, one of the most powerful organisations in France, has forwarded to the Prime Minister a letter, strongly urging retaliation against the proposed British tariffs. However, there is a growing tendency, reports the Paris correspondent of “The Times,” to drop the talk of retaliation, and urge friendly bargaining between France- and Britain. A committee appointed by tin* Minister of Commerce demands the immediate resumption of the Fra neo-British cominer negotiations, initiated in April. RADIO WONDERS. REVELATIONS AT OLYMPIA. LONDON, September. 26. . An invisible radio ray, usable as a burglar alarm or to enable a motorist to open his garage door without leaving the car seat, is among the wonders provided at the radio exhibition at Olympia, A giant loud-speaker, audible for 25 miles; cheap home talkie outfits, and a four-in-one entertainer, combining a radio set, gramophone, cinema, and talkie are also shown on five miles of stands carrying exhibits valued at £5,000,000.

Wireless sets show increased simplic ity of control great improvements in design, and a price reduction of 25 per cent. Electric sets are more numerous than they were last year, * and radiogramophones are more popular. -Manufacturers are appealing to women buyers with artistics cabinets and loud-speakers, available in coloured woods, matching the colour scheme of any room. A simple gramophone attachment, costing £l, enables records to be made at home at trifling cost. NEVER AGAIN! ACTRESS AND AUSTRALIA. LONDON, September 26. “We all have our weak moments, and it was certainly one of mine when j I decided to go to Australia,” writes j Maisie Gay, the revue artist, in her j took. “Laughing Through Life.” Her complaints are largely against the dieatrieal profession, but Australians ■ generally receive some caustic criticism, i “Even in America,” she writes, "I vas never made to feel such an alien, j Australians have very little use for me English. are essentially an outloor people. The women dress baclty iid the men worse, The Australians I

include more towards the American than towards the English in many tastes.” Other charges include the lack of a sense of humour. Audiences, she says, like anything blatant and obvious, and do not understand subtlety. She ends the Australian chapter of her book with this: “Nothing could persaude me to go to Australia again. Even now, when anyone mentions Australia, I think of those dreadful expressions. ‘bonza,’ •goodoli,' ‘too right,’ ‘eoo-ee,’ and ‘hell,’ ”