GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20110, 31 March 1928, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

RADIUM SUPPLY AUSTRALIAN PURCHASE. (A. & N.Z.) CANBERRA, Marell 30. The House passed the'appropriation of £lOO,OOO for the purchase of radium. Sir Neville Howsc explained that the decision to purchase was to the alarming increase in the prevalence of can-, cor. MINERS OUT OF WORK DEPRESSION IN i,JW SOUTH WALES. (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, March 30. Another 650 employees at the Aberdare central colliery, Cessnock, will receive nutice of dismissal at the weekend owing to lack of coal orders. The south mine is already closed. The district is thus hard bit and a large amount has already been spent on relief. TAX ON BACHELORS PROPOSAL REJECTEE. (A. & N.Z.) SYDNEY, March 30. The National Association Convention rejected the proposal of the State Parliament to impose a tax on bachelors and spinsters betwen the ages of 25 and. 55, whose incomes exceed. £-oU. MURDER NEAR APIA CHINAMAN KNIFED. A. & N.Z.) APIA, March 28. In a plantation near Apia, in the vicinity of the Lotopa murders in December, a Chinese coolie was discovered murdered. He bore knife wounds similar to those of the Lotopa victims, and a money belt worn by the coolie was missing. J

A DREADED DISEASE CHOLERA IN CALCUTTA. (A. & N.Z.) DELHI, March 29. Cholera has broken out in Calcutta, there being 122 deaths in one day. The health authorities arc inoculating thousands of Indians to prevent the spread of the disease. APPROVAL FOR “DAWN” A CONDITIONAL RELEASE. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 29. After privately viewing “Dawn,” the theatre committee of the London County Council decided to recommend its release on condition that the shooting of the Germans in the execution scene was excised. WIN FOR THE PRINCE HIGHLAND STEEPLECHASE. (A.P.A. Sun). LONDON, March 29. Though he fell before the second last fence, the Prince of Wales remounted and won easily the Highland Brigade steeplechase, which was run in a bitter tain storm at Frensham._ NO FREE RIDES A RADICAL PROPOSAL. (A. & N.Z.) MELBOURNE, Mar. 29. Sir John Quick raised a storm, of protest from motorists by suggesting in the Federal Arbitration Court that in order to help the Victorian railway revenue, owners of private motor-cars be prohibited from giving free rides to their relatives, friends, and others. CHILD WELFARE KING RECEIVES SIR TRUBY KING. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 29. His Majesty, after a Buckingham Palace party, asked Dr. Truby King, who called on March 26, to remain, and conversed with him for half an hour on childrerT’s welfare. His Majesty displayed a keen interest in the movement, stating that while maternity mortality was so high there was still much work to do.