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JAR ELECTRIC LAMPS. ” ) [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, August 28. The Board of Trade announces that the report from the Import Duties Advisory Committee, dated Oct. 4, 1933, recommending increased duties on electric lamps, is being published tomorrow. Increased imports of these goods in recent years have come mainly from Japan. Since this report was received, His Majesty’s Government, after consultation with the United Kingdom electric. lamps manufacturers, discussed with representatives of the Japanese Government the question of imports of electric lamps from that country. As a result of these discussions, it has now been decided not to give effect for the present to recommendations of the Import Duties Advisory Committee, provided the imports of electric lamps from Japan during the year commencing April 1, 1934, do not exceed certain specified totals.
CALIFORNIA’S GOVERNOR. SAN FRANCISCO, August 28. . Upton Sinclair, who was formerly a Socialist, received the Democratic Party’s endorsement for the election for Governor of California, at to-day’s Primaries. It was given on his platform of “End Poverty in California!” He will face the apparent choice of the Republicans, Acting-Governor Frank Merriam, in the November elections.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 August 1934, Page 7
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