GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

METHODIST CHURCH UNION. united press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 17.. The Wesleyan Methodist Conference at Birmingham, voted by 558 votes to 14, in favour of the Union of the three Meihodist Churches. The other two churches have already voted in favour of the union. SPAIN'S POPULATION. MADRID, July 17. Advance figures of the Spanish census, which was taken in December last, show that the population of Spain is 22,405,979. This is an increase of 846,155 since 1920.

•MACMILLAN .REPORT

(Received this day at 9.25 a.m) LONDON, July 17.

“The Daily Telegraph” in an editorial stressed that the MacMillan Report was clear on one point, namely that it affords not the slightest encouragement to the favourite Labour nostrum the nationalisation of the Bank of England as a first step to public control of all banking. The report, on the contrary, pays a tribute' as an independent of political influences functioning solely for public interest untinged by motives of private gain. IRISH PARLIAMENT.' LOVDON, July 17. “The British Monarch as King is finished as far as the Free State is concerned. Everything now clone is at the will of the Irish people” said Mr McG.lligan moving in the Dad the adoption of the Imperial Conference report. He added that the conference's report destroyed British Legislative supremacy in ths Dominions,