MATCH MONOPOLY
FRENCH PREMIER’S DILEMMA
(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received April 7, o 10 p.m.) PARIS, April G.
Despite M. Poincare’s insistence, the Chamber Finance Committee, voting on the proposed cession of the match monopoly, resulted in a tie, leaving M. Poincare to decide whether to bring the proposal before •the Chamber of Deputies—A. and N.Z.C.A.
FIRST MATCH CENTENARY CELEBRATION. WAS IT ACCIDENTAL ? LONDON, March 19. British matchmaking firms will jointly honor in April the hundredth anniversary of the first match being struck by John Walker, the Stockton-on-Tees (Durham) chemist. It is supposed that this was an accidental discovery, but it was patented in 1827.
The present incumbent, of Walker’s original chemist’s business, John Price, appeared in the Bankruptcy Court at Stockton to-day, and mentioned that his assets included Walker's sales books and pestles, for which a British match-making firm has offered £3OO.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10368, 8 April 1927, Page 5
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