GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 11 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

Received 9.5 a.nl.

LONDON, Aug_ 10.

The House of’ Commons adopted a resolution authorising pagnnent of £IOO,OOO as the G~:\'e1'11m011t”s share of the guarazl‘u::e funzi En connection xvithvthe forthcoming Lzizisit Empire E.\'hi_bition.

M 1: _Ke.llaway. in Inc\'irlg the 1-c,-5<.1.1~ tion. said there was no better wet)‘ of

rcelebrating the great p:1:‘1' pla_x°ed by the ElnApire in the War than by holding in London this e_\'hibit'ion of the Empire’s nmnific-«Id resources and the activities of its peoples. 0 The guarantee was conditional on :1 guarantee of £500,000 being forthcoming from private ‘sources. There is every reason to believe that the sum will be found. If it was necessary that our manufacturers should find, a. new market, our greatest hope in this connection lay in the Empire.

ITALIAN TRADE‘

Receivéd 9.40 am

ROME, Aug. 10.

The Italian Government. has invited ‘Signori‘Ramaciotti to address the principal Italian Chambers of Commerce on Australiaii resources and industries. Signor Rama.ciot’ri will also aftend the meeting of "die Council of the British Chamber of Commerce at Leghorn in October.

RAILVV.~X Y WORKERS’ VVAGE-S.

RETROSPECTIVE GRANTS.

Received 9_30 a.m. . WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.

The United States Railway Board awards increases, amounting to thirty million dollars, to seventy-five thousand American railway express workers. The grants are retrospective fr.olil May Ist.

THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

I DEPUTATION RE PAPER _ SUPPLIES. ‘ NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES ACTIVE. I (Special to Press A.=.sociation.) 2 " . Received 9.40 am. ' E TORONTO, Aug. 10; l" The New Zealnnd delegates to the §Press Conference deputationised Mr Foster re paper supplies. and pointed out the serious position of the Dominion newspapers ' The Minister gave a sympathetic reply and promised to assist in every possible way. The New Zealanders were greatly impressed by the developments and the potentialities of Niagara water power, and the civic expansion and industrial enterprise in Toronto and surrounding towns, resulting largely ?from cheap power, which led the delepgates unanimously to express the opinion that the Dominion, should lose no time in accelerating its hydrolelectric schemes.