GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 19435, 26 December 1924, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

BROWNHEART IN APPLES. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, December 24. The Food Investigation Board and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research have submitted a report on their investigations into brownheart in apples and study into the conditions under which cargoes from Australia are handled. The report states that brownheart is produceable under commercial conditions in otherwise healthy fruit simply by insufficient ventilation during transit, QUEENSLAND’S UNEMPLOYED. BRISBANE, December 24. Concerning the operations of the Unemployed Workers’ Insurance Act, it was stated 4000 names had been registered at the Labour Bureau through the State as unemployed, whereof 2455 are inTeceipt of unemployment sustenance. The remainder are not yet eligible. The total amount paid by the fund from September 14, 1924, to December 13, 1924, was £210,488. “A PERFECT PLAYGROUND.” LONDON, December 23. The Daily Mail, in commenting on the increasing popularity of winter sports, expresses the opinion that the New Zealand Alps are the most perfect of all playgrounds for the whole year round. TOO MUCH WIRELESS. LONDON, December 23. The headmaster of the Bradford Grammar School has circularised parents declaring that the wireless craze has caused the scamping of homework, owing to the boys being forced to work while the loud speaker is in full blast. He adds: “The unregulated indulgence in wireless imperils the boys’ careers.” COLONIAL MEAT. LONDON, December 23. Regarding the report from Sydney that the British Government has endorsed a scheme for licensing the Overseas Dominions to export meat to Great Britain in quantities sufficient to make upA the homegrown deficiency, it is learned authoritatively that, while the Government is sympathetic towards the scheme, a definite decision is not likely till the matter has been considered by the Food Commission. BUILDING IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, December 23. Building operations in the metropolitan area this year reached the highest level ever recorded. The buildings completed numbered 12,180, costing £14,346,071, compared with 10,450 buildings costing £10,133,116 in the previous year. SOVIET PROPAGANDA. LONDON, December 23. The Russian correspondent of the'Morning Post telegraphs: “In consequence of Soviet officials using Turkey as a base for propaganda in adjacent States, the Angora Government is threatening to expel them if they do not cease this diplomatic abuse.” MAY HAVE BEEN SELF-INFLICTED. SYDNEY, December 25. When the body of James Dwyer, concerning the nature of whose death suspicions had been raised, was exhumed, an exhaustive post mortem was conducted. It is understood that medical men are agreed that the head wound could have been and was self-inflicted. The body has been reinterred.