GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

.. WARSAW. April 8. When arresting sixty alleged Reds the police discovered secret printing presses. Proclamations to be issued on May' 1, also reports destined for the Communist International were confiscated. LONDON, April 9. The death has occurred of Mr Sidney Hoffnung Goldsmid. Death was duo to heart seizure. Mr Goldsmid was the son of the late Mr S. Hoffnung, of Sydney and London, and assumed the name of his wife by Royal license. Ho was Assistant Administrator to the Ministry of Munitions in 1917-18. A message from Darjeeling says that the advance party of the Kinchinjunga -expedition has started on the first stage of the journey. The remainder will leave at the week-end. SYDNEY, April 9. The State Government’s policy to cope with the present industrial depression includes the adoption of a system of payment by results and m cases where h, forty-four hours week obtains and is retained, payment only for the actual time worked. The blast furnace of the Australnn Iron and Steel (Company’s works at Wollongong has been closed, and 1500 men, the whole of the employees of the works, have been thrown idle. NEW YORK, April 9. Thomas Murray, inventor and former vice-president of the Edison Company, left more than £1,000,000 to each of eight children, and £250,000- to each of thirty-seven grandchildren. \ b LONDON, April 9. Summer-time will begin on April 13.