RECIPROCITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1927, Page 7

RECIPROCITY.

Australia and New Zealand.

MS. McLEOD'S ADVOCACY. I (Received soon.) MELBOLTLNE, this day. I At a luncheon tendered by the Hon. A. D. McLeod. Minister of Lands in N'ew Zealand, to the Federal and State Min- : isters and prominent business men, Mr. I McLeod said that Australia and New j Zealand both desired to bring about! ! recrprueity in the payment of pensions.' I Although there were many difficulties: j in the way the schema had not been : abandoned. i -Reciprocity in humanitarian efforU j could do much to bind the Em pirn i j together. j Mr. S. M. Bruce said Australia and Xe-rc Zealand had many problems in common. Their outlooks with regard to the Empire and the Throne were similar :« I they ■were at one in the determination j to maintain the best in British tradition=. I I LIBELLING POLICE. Editor of Labour Fined. ! FALSE ALLEGATIONS MADE. i Received 1U.30 p.m. • LONDON". May 21. 1 I incs of £I<X) apiece were iuiposed' on Mr. William Paul, editor of the "Suudciy Worker" and "Workers' Pub-' locations. Limited,"' for libelling the Metropolitan police. The papers alleged that third degree methods were used to extort confes&iou . from Nathan Dean, an A class war! I prisoner at Pentonville. They *aid hia • i cell was in a tilthy condition and he was j { forced to sleep on the floor, doubtless I for the purpose of making him anieu- i j able to the inquisition. J The judge ordered Paul to remain in custody until the tines were forthcoming, i The Public Prosecutor stated that J Dean was an alien who was detained ou I his arrival at Harwich and sentenced 1 ou March 13 to nine months for stealing i a passport, and alao for possessing an irregular passport. !

ARMS CONFERENCE. BRITISH DELEGATION. iKcceiretl ll.oU a.m. > LOXDOX. Jlay 2L i Mr. Baldwin has announced that the British deleyitiou to President Coolidge'.Disarmament Conference will cousist of the Rt. Hon. W. L , . (tirst Lord of the Admiralty), Viacuunt Cecil. and Vice-Admiral Field. BRITISH GOLF TITLE. WALK OVER FOB NETTLEFOLD. Received 12 uooa.) HOYLAKE (England*. May :M. In the second round of the auiuceur ehampioaship at Hoy lake to-day, Leu Xettlefold, tile Australian champioo, had a walk over, his opponent, Raymond j Oppenheimer, the Oxford captain, bchig' unable to obtain leave of absence from college. Abercrombie (Liverpool). beat tlic veteran John Ball, £-and t. j Robinson (Southport) beat Perkins (English native champion), 2 and I. Jfoel Lay too (Walton Heath) beat Newton (America), 3 and 2. Roger Wethered beat Stanley Lunt (Moseleyi, 2 and 1. Cecil Tolley beat Lord Charles Hope. 3 and L—(A, and Xi and "Svdney I