GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 25, 31 January 1916, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

i PAPER PULP PROHIBITION. I | LONDON, Jan. 27. j Mr. Essex, in the House of Commons, hoped that the prohibition of the importation of paper pulp would not operate adversely against newspapers which had not their own means of supply. Mr. Runcimau said that all arrangements would be equitable and on a line which would not give an unfair privilege to anyone. i I { MR. FISHER IN FRANCE.

AUSTRALIA’S ARMY. I LONDON, Jan. 27. The High Commissioner for the Commonwealth (Mr Andrew Fisher), speaking at an official welcome at Toulon, stated that Australia was ready to send a further 100,444 troops ALLIES HOODYvHNKED. BEFORE BULGARIA ENTERED THE WAR. KING FERDINAND’S BOAST. AMSTERDAM, Jan 27. The correspondent of the ‘Vienna paper Neue Fri e Presso at Sofia states that King Ferdinand, at the Nish banquet, boasted that M. Radoslavoff’s diplomacy had hoodwinked the Allies before Bulgaria joined th e fray.

VALUE OF SABBATH REST. MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S DECISION. MUNITION MANUFACTURE TO CEASE ON SUNDAYS. LONDON, January 28. ' Mr. Lloyd George has issued a circular to munitions manufacturers urging that Sunday labour be abolished in controlled establishments, pointing out that it is better to work overtime on weekdays than to work on Sundays. The decision is the outcome of an investigation upon production by continuous labour, which showed that Sunday labour tended to diminsh rather than increase the output.