GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

SHIP AGREEMENT. i (United Press Association—By Electric I , , . Telegraph—Copyright), *

WASHINGTON, . August 24

I The United ‘States : Maritime Comi mission ha's invalidated ah agreejment, ' existing since 1030, • under [which,. for a period of ten years, the 'Dollar* Steamship Line paid the Mattson Navigation Company fifty per {.cent of its gross receipts from the | Hawaiian and the United StatOi* [Pacific coast traffic, and also divided ithe Pacific traffic between themselves • and the' Matson Line. Under the j agreement, the-Matson Cov. agreed to ? refrain from entering the American land Asiatic, and also the Philippines | and Guam traffic, while tlie Dollar 'Line refrained from entering the itrade with liter -New “Zealand, Austrajlian and the Fijian and Samoan traffic. '•> . -

DEATH OF M.P. | , ; RUGBY', August 24. • • A by-election in the Doncaster l)i "vision pf: the West Riding of Yorkshire will be necessary because of the dea th of Mr* Alfred "Short (Labour). ’ Mr Short was'a boilersmitli. He- was called to the Bar in 1923. From 19.18 till 1931 be sat in the House of Comriums and lie was lln. der-SeCrotn'i-y to the Home' Office) in tin' secbiid Labour Gov'erUnient.