FED UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9

FED UP.

Canadian Conservative

Leader.

HIS PET AMBITION.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

OTTAWA, June 7.

Mr. R. B. Bennett, Conservative leader, is reported to be "fed up" with his job. His emotions are obviously artificial. His leadership has failed to capture the popular imagination. As his age increases it is reported that he harbours a pet ambition with the years growing on him; he longs to adorn the British Parliament with his private fortune, which runs to many" millions.' It is expected that after the next election he will leave Canada and wind up his career in the Mother of Parliaments.

TASMAN FLYERS.

Honour And Honesty Of Crew

Upheld.

NEWSPAPERS ATTACKED.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) SYDNEY, June 7.

Inthe closing stages of the aviation inquiry counsel for the Southern Cross aviators severely attacked the newspapers which were responsible for the suggestion that the forced landing and the crew losing themselves had all been pre-arranged. ■

Counsel for the late Lieutenant Anderson's relatives submitted that Anderson had been actuated by the best of motives when he started out. There was no evidence that lie had sought any reward. The great mistake the authorities had made was delaying the search for Anderson too~l'6n"£r~ —" - '

Mr. J. H. Hammond, E.C., * 'who assisted the committee, said he was satisfied that the honour and honesty of the crew of the Southern Cross had been established. It was lamentable that the public should have been so ready to receive and repeat slanderous statements which had appeared in a section of the Press about men'who, so recently, they had been delighted to honour aiid cheer for their pluck and skill in the air.

It ,was inconceivable to think that men of the calibre of Litchfield and McWilliams, the navigator and wireless operator, should have been deceived into being lost, much less to think they would have become parties to such an enterprise 'by design.

Either they were "in the swim" or they were fooled, and the evidence showed that nothing of the kind existed.

_ McWilliams, however, had taken the view that there would have been risk ill converting his radio set into a transmitter. That Avas an error of judgment on his part, but there was no evidence that any of the crew had desired to remain hidden from the world.

MINERS IRRITATED

Fear That Men Will Be Starved To Submission. TO CUT OFF COAL SUPPLIES. SYDNEY, June 7. It is stated that the passive resistance by the coalowners is irritating the miners' representatives, who fear that the men will be starved into submission. Ihe fact that some mines in the south and western areas of New South Wales have been working while the northern mines are idle has enabled the industries to be kept going and in a large measure lias defeated the object of the strikers. A sinister announcement, however, was made to-day by Mr. J. T. Atkins, general secretary of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association, who says he intends to recommend to the New South Wales council that it withdraw all the members of his organisation from the pits that are now being worked, thereby cutting off coal supplies from all parts of the State. Mr. Atkins said he looked for no amelioration of the position from the Coal Commission, and from the-first he was convinced that an "all in strike was essential to the success of the miners , cause.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

SYDNEY, this day

At the inquiry into the deaths of Stracban Knight and Miss Rene Linton, an actress, who were found dead at Creinorne in a flat, following a quarrel the coroner found the case one of murder and suicide.