GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

FRENCH LANGUAGE DISPUTE. ’

(Uhitod Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright.) ;

BRUSSELS' duly 18,

Embittered strife betweeh partisans .of the FrenclvFletnish languages has at last been -temporarily brought to. a’ standstill’," the Senate having adopted, by 83 votes to 25, with 13 abstentions, a Bill recently passed by the Chamber, regulating the question of language. Teaching, henceforth, v is to be imparted in elementary as well as; secondary, schools. According to the,.new measure, all .le-eons must .be given in French in the Walloon districts and in Flemish: ■in Flemish regions.

WHEAT POOL.

WINNIPEG, July 19

Bracken reveals that. Government ,in its wheat recommendations to the Conference agreed with Manitoba pool that the. quota for . Britain would be of - no advantage. Henry Wise Wood, head of t.he Alberta pool ! declared the quota would neither decrease the surplus ‘ or increase the demand.

V BURIAL OF LORD PLUM'EIR

; l ; LONDON, July 19. With; reference • to the. burial of Lord Plumer in Westminster Abbey to-day, an intimate friend recalls that h 0 used to say: “The appropriate sepulchre for a soldier is the battlefield, among his. fallen- comrades, hut as 1 have: "been • spared death ih my campaigns, I should like nothing better, wheh the tim e comes, than _to be near the gravy of The Unknown Warrior.’ That would indeed he a crowning honoufi" Thau big wish b&i been .fulfilled. LONDON, July : 80,

.At Lord PUimer’g funeral, Sir Granville. Ryrie Australia, Sir Donald Cameron the Commonwealth Ministry, and Sir Thomas Wilford New Zealand. , ;

STOWAWAYS COMPLAINT OF N.Z

LONDON, Ju’y 20

“Conditions in New Zealand are absolutely deplorable, and the majority of (118 had only one meal a day lor four or fiv© months,” the spokesman of eleven stowaways on . the Port Melbourne. They pleaded that they had worked bard during the voyage, and had shifted fourteen hundred’ tons -of coal.' They were sentenced to 14 days' each. : 1 '