GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 August 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Aiig. 17. A compulsory conference between the coal miners and the owners has commenced in an endeavour to settle a number of outstanding disputes The conference adjourned till Tuesday without reaching finality. The proceedings were held in camera. In the Arbitration Court an application by the Metal Trade Employers’ Association for the Federated Moulders’ Union to show cause why it should not be deregistered for conducting an illegal strike was allowed to stand over far°a week. The case arose out of the moulders’ .strike at the Clyde engineering works. HOBART, Aug. 17. A fire at Zeeham destroyed six shops. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. LONDON, Aug. 17.

The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post says doctors and medical .students are dumbfounded by the Free State Government's decision to break off from the British General Medical Council. Doctors declare it will be the death knelL of the profession and will ruin the medical schools of Ireland. Mr \V. T. Cosgrave (President of the Free State Executive Council) says that for an important profession in the Free State to continue with its centre of gravity fluid disciplinary headquarters in another country is incompatible with the Free State’s constitutional status. It is better to face the temporary disadvantages arising from the ending of the arrangement.