GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1938, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

WOMEN FOR HOME DEFENCE. (Per British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 16. Plans for recruiting 500,000 members for an organisation called ‘‘Women’s Voluntary Service” were announced to-night. The Dowager Lady Reading is at the head of the organisation, which will not.be officially associated with any of the defence forces, hut will work in close co-operation with local authorities, Government departments, and other Women’s organisations. , ■..

The main duties of the organisation will be connected with air raid precautions. Wdino tv*tillages oP 17 and 65 are being invited to volunteer, -whether married or single. They will receife training in anti-gas and general air raid precautions measures. There will be no uniform and no attempt to copy a military type of organisation.

BRITISH LOSSES IN BRAZIL, RUGBY; June 16. In the House of Commons, Sir Joseph Leech (Conservative) asked the | Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir | John Simon) whether, notwithstand- | ing the temporary loss to sill coneern- | od. he would impose prohibitive duties on the importation to the United Kingdom of products from Brazil, which had extinguished £80.600.000 of British savings. Sir John Leech urged this action on the ground that diplomatic protests were disregarded. Unless the Government made clear to foreign borrowers that ill-treatment of British capital would dm met by tariff reprisals, no British subject should invest in future in foreign 'countries. j Sir John Simon replied that the [ Government attached the greatest I 1 importance to the resumption of payment of the Brazilian internal debt, and was in close consultation with | the Council of Foreign Bondholders. He had considered Sir John Leech’s suggestion, but did not think it would achieve its object. CONGRESS ADJOURNS. WASHINGTON. June 17. The seventy-fifth United States Congress adjourned sine die after a session of 420 days, in which it approved record peace time appropriations amounting to 12,656,000,000 dollars, of which 5,691,000,000 is oar-marked for prompting recovery and the relief of distress. BYE-ELECTION RESULT. LONDON, June 17. The Barnsley bye-election, made necessary by the death of Mr J, Potts 1 Labour), resulted: F. Coilindridge (Labour) ... 23,566 S. Howard (Liberal National) 13,052 In the 1935 General Election the' figures were:—J. Potts (Labour); 25.318: R. J. Soper (Liberal National), 17,683. CZECH DISBANDING. PRAGUE, June 17. It is announced that the last of the 100,000 Czech reservites who were mobilised on May 21 will bo disbanded tomorrow. A TRIBUTE APIA. June 16. To honour the memory of MajorGeneral Sir George Richardson, former Administrator of Western Samoa, it is proposed to erect a memorial by public subscription, possibly a bronze tabid. Trihuets fire paid to fille benefit of his administration including the

.Uhnnjna industry, which he inaugiiratocl. the hydro-electric plant- and town water supply, which he installed v also the wharf for local shipping' built during his regime. Improvements t.o, village water supplies, improved sanitation. and gifts of land to necessitious villages are also mentioned as acts not forgotten by the Samoans. Sir George identified himself with the religions and social lile of the people among whum ho lived and worked,