GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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A London message says it is understood that New South Wales and West Australia will float loans within a few weeks. . • .

The Profiteering Prevention Court has ordered reductions in the retail prices of beef in Sydney, ranging from a halfpenny to a penny a pound.

The Toldo authorities have reversed ■the ban placed on Mrs. Margaret SangeT, head of the Birth Control League, who will be permitted to land and lecture.

The King has approved the issue of imedals of silver and bronze to Allied nationals who assisted British soldieTS behind the enemy lines. There are being awarded 133 silver and 573 bronze medals.

At the welcome in Sydney to the Australasian League Football team, it -was announced that'the profits on the English tour were over £5000.

The members of the Springboks Athletic team, who arrived in Sydney by the Maheno, report a successful tour. ■The manager states that amateur athletics have a much wider appeal to the centres outside the larger cities-in New Zealand than in Australia. The meetings were excellently supported in the minor towns.

Mr. Lucas is writing to Paris witli the object of arranging a fight between Cook and Nilles, the heavyweight champion of France, and also for matches for Lloyd and Burns. Should Burns beat Davies he will be matched against Ted Moore in May, and if then successful will meet Kid Lewis.