GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3673, 7 November 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

MORE PROTECTION WANTED. QUEENSLAND COTTONY ILLS CLOSED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT) BRISBANE, Nov. 6. Owing to inability to obtain adequate protective duties, Jopee’s cotton milks at Ipswich are closing.

STEAMERS IN COLLISION

(Received Nov. 6, 11.5 p.m.) PARIS, Nov. 6

The- Norwegian steamer Eva collided with the Spanish steamer Arena off Iledaix. The latter sank in two minutes. Seventeen men were drowned.

LONDON SHOP FIRE. (Received November 6, 10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. The fifth victim «f Barker’s fire has succumbed. *

SYDNEY’S RENT PROBLEM

(Received Nov. 7, 1.5 a.in.) SYDNEY, Nov. 6

The Parliamentary Committee which inquired into the enormous increase in house rents assigns the causes to increase in population, the growing cost of labor and material, demolitions through resumptions, the growing demand for cottages and houses resulting from prosperity increasing the demand for cottages in preference to terrace houses, and, in isolated cases, the Federal Land Tax. The recommendations of the Committee include empowering the Government Savings Bank to lend artisans 95 per. centum of the cost of building houses, making available suitable Crown land about the suburbs, a vigorous policy of house construction by the Government, and permitting people to live in canvas dwellings at Daceyville and Centennial, .Park during the summer. The Committee also urges a Bill to regulate rents.