GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MEANS TEST PROPOSALS

TO BE ANNOUNCED TO-MORROW

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) LONUON, November 8,

The Government’s means te-'t proposals will be announced in the Commons to-morrow, as follows : —Half of war and disability pensions, and ha- 1 * of workmen’s compensation, to be reckoned -as-t-uwans/ Every.-, complete twenty-five pounds after, the first twenty-five to a maximum of three hundred,., to be reckoned ns a shilling per week income...

House .property, to rank as savings, where the owner is not the occupier, but where the applicant, is both owner and occupier the rental value to be reckoned £Vs income.

MAKING PETROL FROM COVL,

LONDON, November 9,

The “Guardian” says tjiat, it is rumoured that negotiations are being completed by Imperial Chemicals for the formation of . a subsidiary company with a capital of ten millions, to produce petrol from coal at Billing.-, ham. It was stated that the increased petrol prices made the scheme practicable. The company originally contemplated making 213,000 tons annually from 850,000 tong of coal.

’■ SYDNEY EXTENSION SCHEME

'SYDNEY, November 9

The city council after ten years’ delay hag decided to give effect to the Martin Place-McQuarrie Street extension scheme. The chief matter to he* arranged (with the authorities is the St. Stephen's Church in , Phfll’p Street which has t 0 b e removed. .The ex ensipn at present goes only from Elizabeth Street.

“HEARTSEASE” AT SUVA

SUVA, November 9.

The crew of the Auckland yacht “Heartsease,” which arrived to-day, are all well. The voyage from Whangarei to .Nukualofa occupied twenty-two days, rjnd tlianoe four day to Suva. The crew propose to sail in a weeks time towards Brisbane.