GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 233, 28 June 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

6 BY TELIGBAYH.—PBEBS ASSOCIATION. —OOYYBIGHT. Canada has prohibited the exportation of geld coin, bullion, and bars until July 1, 1923. The United States Govornrxept has requested Mexico to secure the release of Bruce Biela ski, former Chief of the United States Secret Service, who is held to ransom by Mexican bandits. The Institute of British Architects has awarded Mr. George Checkley, a New Zealander, the Henry Jervis studentship, which is worth £2OOO, and is tenable at the British School m Rome. Sir John Quick and Mr. Noel Webb, Deputy-Pwsident of, the Industrial Court of South Australia, have been appointed Deputy-Presidents of the Federal Arbitration Courts for two years, at salaries of £2OOO per annum. The President of tho Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Mr. Justice Powers, referring to the statement by the representative of the Aiustralian Workers’ Union at tho High Court that the shearers’ rates were fixed on a miscalculation, said that if the union showed him that such was the case, he would vary tho award without hesitation. The “Sydney Daily Telegraph” suggests that Sir Thomas Henley (ex-Min-ister of Works) is joining several other Coalitionists to form a “cave” with the object of keeping the State Cabinet up to the collar. It is understood that the “cave,” whilst not directly hostile to tho Government, is meetings, in the Independents’ room instead of in a Ministerial room. Dr. Prescott, principal of Newington College, has prepared a statement in reply to the report that the New South Wales Cabinet intends to restrict free train travelling to pupils of State schools. ' He shows that 74,000 pupils are educated in non-State schools, resulting in a saving of over £500,000 a year to the Government. Ho suggests, therefore, that the, savings proposed would only be trifling in comparison, find wbuld Irritate thousands of people. Tho South African House of Assembly has adopted a resolution providing for a dumping duty to bring tho price of imported goods to the level of the local products in cases where the sale of the imported goods is likely to affect any industry in the Union. ’ The Minister of Finance explained that the reason of tho measure was the alleged undercutting of tho South African Rubber Company by the American rubber suppliers for the purpose of capturing the market. In tho High Court at Sydney, the Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia applied for a rule nisi to restrain the Coal Tribunal from dealing, with the dispute in the coal-mining industry on the grounds: (1) That there was no industrial dispute; (2) that if there was a dispute no specific dispute had been referred to tho tribunal; and (3) that the Coal Tribunal had no jurisdiction to investigate tho dispute because it was not validly constituted under tho Industrial Peace Act 1920, or under tho Constitution. Mr. Justice Higgins dismissed the first, two grounds, but granted a rule nisi on their third ground.