GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1938, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

JAPS COPY BRITISH DESIGNS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, March 8

Mr Ellis Smith -(Labour, ..(Stoke-on-Trent) asked ?in?‘ the/;Hohse of Commons what action it was proposed to take • about Japanese earthenware, copying British designs, and stamped misleadingly, being imported into New Zealand. Mr R. S. Hudson, Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, replied: “Owners of a registered design have their legal remedies against the sale of. goods bearing designs infringing their copyright. The import of goods bearing marks, .calculated' .to deceive as to their‘origin, iis prohibited in New Zealand.

royal tour of Scotland;

. ' ‘ RUGBY, March. : 8. t It is officially announced that' the King and Queen will devote May 4* the day following the opening of the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, by His Majesty, to a tour of the Scottish special areas, south and east of Glasgow.

NEW LINERS FOR BLUE STAR CO

(Per British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, March 8

The Blue Star Line has placed an order with Messrs ■ Harland and Wolff for two fast motor refrigerated cargo liners, the cost of which will exceed £1,000,000. ’

RIBBENTROP TO VISIT LONDON

RUGBY, March 8

Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the new German Foreign Minister’ will leave Berlin, to-day for •>-.London, where he will take leave of officials and friends.

He will call on the British Foreign Minister (Lord Halifax) o n Thursday.

INSOLVENCY ANNOUNCED.

NEW YORK, March 8,

Richard Whitney and Company, one of the most important brokerage firms in the United Sates, has been suspended from the Stock Exchange on the "ground of insolvency, after Whitney’s admission that he was unable to meet his obligations. Mr Whitney was five times president of the. Exchange, former broker for J. P. Morgan, and a member of the Exchange since 1912. His bankruptcy caused excitment in market circles, and contributed to an early decline in stocks of 1 to 3 points.

LABOUR PEER RESIGNS

LONDON, March 8,

The “Daily Mail” says: Lord Sanderson, aged sixty-nine, blind from birth, is resigning from the Labour Party, feeling that its attainment of office would menace peace. He declares his inability to work for an organisation whose policy involves so much hatred of foreign Powers, and also which is Prepared to fight on behalf of collective security. Lady Sanderson has also resigned.

DELAYED DROP RECORD

PARIS, March 8

James Williams, in a now delayed drop record, leapt out of a plane when 35,075 feet high, and opened the parachute when 650 feet from the ground. The free drop occupied 140 seconds, and the parachute drop 18 seconds.