GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PRICES K)R WOOLLEN GOODS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London, June 17. It is considered in trade circles that there are no early proepecte of a reduction in l prices of high-class wools. The demand for good worsted is undiminished. The better-paid wage-earners refuse the poorer qualities. The supply of raw material exceeds the best anticipations, but the machinery is inadequate to produce better class goods at the rate demanded, "the trade expects a large export business after peace is declared, as continental manufacturers are still far behind the British, and British stocks of raw material will probably be more than sufficient for the home trade. It is unlikely that the price of manufactured goods will appreciably decline' for some time, even if the price of wool falls, owing to the continued rise in wages and heavy taxation.—Aub.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AUSTRALIAN LABOR CONFERENCE. Received June 23, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, June 23. The Labor Conference resolved to add the following planks to the fighting platform:—Endowment of motherhood, Widows' and children's pensions, maternity bonus, and national insurance against unemployment on a noncontributory basis.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Received June 23, 10.30 p.m. Sydney, June 23. Although the influenza restrictions curtailed the ceremonies connected with Lord Jellicoe's visit, large holiday crowds greeted the famous admiral while paying official calls and at a civic welcome in the town' hall,—Aim. N.Z. Cable Association.

London, June 22. One New Zealand and time Australian Army teams entered the Henley regatta.

A thousand oversea agriculturalists, representing the Dominion forces, will the Royal Agricultural Show at Cardiff. A number of Dominion soldier farmers will also visit Sandringham as the King's guests Capetown, June 20. The Parliamentary session has ended. A Bill granting an amnesty to the deportees and the rebels of 1914 was passed.

The Minister of Mines announced the appointment of a Commission, including the Government Mining Engineer representatives, the Chamber of Mines, the Federation of Trades and the Miners' Union to investigate the mining crisis.