GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Oct. 28. Proposals will he put before the London County Council by its special traffic committee next week under which the council will be asked for its approval of working arrangements extending over a period of 42 years between the London Municipal Trarnwayu and Traffip Combine, which, under. Lord Ashlield, includes ; omnibuses and v underground railways. This step indicates further, evidence of the move for the creation of a common fund and eornmon management in connection with London traffic. DOUBLE TAXATION AND FISCAL EVASION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 28. At the League of Nations Union experts resumed discussion on doubt* taxation and fiscal evasion. A. suggestion was before them that'filnp ping companies should he taxed onl> in the countries in which their real centres of management are situated. Sir Samuel Instone, director of Irn perial Airways, London, as representative of the International Chamber of Commerce, stated that air trans port companies wished, the same principle to tie applied to themselves.

GENEROUS CHARITABLE GIFTS BY ANONYMOUS DONOR (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. Oct. 28, v Another magnificent gift for charitable purposes j s announced to-day, an anonymous philanthropist having executed a deed of gift of approximately £150,000 in. favor of the British Humane Association to come into operation after his death. The same benefactor has subscribed £SOOO to a communal service for the use of the Guild of Freemen .of the Ci£v of London on condition that the guild subscribe an equal sum to the British Humane Association and become founders. A similar arrangement has been made with .the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the object being that the association shall continue in perpetuity to be dominated by the ideals set out in Rotary, of which the donor is a memffer.

STUPENDOUS DAM EN INDIA United Presa Assn, by 131. Tel. Copyright (Australian Press Assn.) DELHI. Oct. 28.. Mr Lesly;Wilson opened the Lloyd dam at Rhatigar,' 32 miles west .of Poona. It is described as'the most stupendous mass of masonry ever built by the hand .of mail, ’in any part of the world. TSvo..canals, one 100 miles and- the other 106 ~ -miles long, render irrigable an area! ,of pearly. 1,000,000; peres. . .L,- i v.