GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17243, 31 October 1927, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, October 29. The success of the national savings movement, which encourages the purchase by people of small means of the savings certificates issued by the Government, was referred to at a conference at Manchester yesterday. Working people make purchases by means of small weekly contributions through local associations, and the amount now due to depositors in this organisation exceeds £500,000,000. A commission set up to consider the stipend of the clergy reports that the income of 200 incumbents is less than £2OO a year. An attempt by the residents of the Welsh town of Abcrdovey to prevent golf on Sunday by crowding on to the course rendering play impossible had a sequel in the Chancery Court, when 16 persons had to be restrained from going on to the course. One out of every 2G persons in Britain owns a motor vehicle. The number of vehicles for which licenses were granted last year was 1,729,000. Dr. Bradford Hill, of the Institute of Medical Research, says there is a common belief that first-class athletes die young, but at least as regards cricket this is untrue, lie asserts that only 4 per cent, of cricketers die be-. fore they are 35, whereas the normal death-rate of ordinary men before that age is nearly 9 per cent. BERLIN, October 29. The unemployed in Germany is officially reported as being 442,000, compared with 1,750,000 a year ago. This is regarded as a sign that Germany is recovering her pre-war position. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 27. Fond riots have occurred here owing to a shortage of bread. The census is being taken here. All the people have been ordered to remain in their houses while the officials make a house-to-house call. NEW YORK, October 29. A message from Provincetown, Massachusetts, says a Ashing schooner the Avalon was rammed and sunk to-day in a dense fog by the steamer President W. Wilson. Sixteen members of the crew of the schooner were drowned. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. Mr James Clark, of Newcastle, is seeking to establish his relationship to die late William A. Clark, of Montana, a former member of the Senate, who left an estate worth over £9,400,000. PARIS, October 29. The American aviators, Miss Ruth Elder and Captain George Haldemaun, who were rescued in the mid-Atlantic when their aeroplane American Girl came down, were boisterously welcomed at the aerodrome at Le Bour6'cL