GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

GUNFIRE’S TOLL OF GANGSTERS (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) VANCOUVER) Feb. 25. It is, estimated that twenty-five thousand gangsters have died by gun- *. fire since prohibition arrived. A leading financier in New York suggests that one real'cause of the depression is the hoarding by bootleggers and racketeers of several hundred thouand dollars. These men with considerable wealth, fear to deposit oi invest illegal funds funds, their one object in life being the avoidance of income tax. BOAT RACE BROADCAST. LONDON, February 25. The British Broadcasting Company ! has abandoned the idea of a titanic broadcast as both University boat-race crews have absentees due to colds and influenza. Luxton, who is now stroking 'Cambridge,' has quickly settled . down 'to his rhythm, and is doing well.

roman catholic bishop of the north pole. PARTS, Feb. 25. Father Arsene Turcueti! lias been appointed Catholic Bishop of the North Pole Diocese, which covers neat y a million square miles, and has a Population of only eight thousand people. Father Turcuetil lias been working among the Esquimaux and Red Indians in Hudson Bay for thirty years.

PRIME' MINISTER. RUGBY, February 24. The Prime Minister of England, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by his daugter, Ishbel, has left London by car for the south-west of England, where he will have a short holiday to recuperate after his recent operation to his left eye.

naval head. RUGBY, February 24. Rear Admiral Geoffrey Blake becomes the new Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport, succeeding Vice-Admiral Lionel Preston from 20th. September. '