LIVELY RECEPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 247, 18 October 1934, Page 7

LIVELY RECEPTION.

Eggs, Fruit and Tomatoes Thrown at Minister. MR. ELLIOT AT GLASGOW. LONDON, Oetobcr 17. Eggs, fruit and tomatoes were hurled at the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Walter Elliot, when he visited the Glasgow University Union accompanied by his wife. Most of the missiles failed to hit the Minister, but one tomato burst over bis head, an egg broke against his coat and water squirted from the students' galleries poured over him. Mrs. Elliot was struck by a tomato aimed at her husband and she ran with other women from the platform. The Minister pleaded for quiet and succeeded in making his speech. CANE CUTTERS STRIKE. QUEENSLAND DISPUTE. . . . ) (Received 10.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. ! Following a mass meeting of mill workers and cane cutters in the Mourilyan area, a strike was declared and the Mourilyan mill, which is one of the largest in Australia, is now idle. The dispute developed over rates of pay for handling cane burnt by farmers to prevent the spread of Weil's disease. The strike involves about 400 cane cutters, of whom 97 per cent are foreigners, chiefly Italians. The mill workers, who are almost entirely British, unanimously decided to support the strike. N.S.W. MORTGAGE PLAN. FOLLOW N.Z. LEGISLATION. r ■ (Received 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. In the State Assembly attention was directed to the New Zealand proposal to introduce legislation for the establishment of a National Mortgages Corporation. The Premier, Mr. B. S. Stevens, said the State Government intended to introduce legislation to establish means to deal with mortgages as between debtor and creditor. He added that the question was being considered in the light, not only of the New Zealand proposals, but also of the suggestions made by a Departmental committee, and proposals emanating from other countries. INDIAN AJtMY. POSITION OF HIGHER OFFICERS CALCUTTA, October 17. The Government of India has sanctioned proposals for dealing with the congestion of officers of the higher and middle ranks in the Indian Army, as the result of over-racruitmcnt for the Great War. "The tenure of the command of lieuten-ant-colonels appointed from January next to the cavalry and infantry is to be limited to three years, after which, if they are not promoted or given further employment, they will be transferred to a special list and granted one year's leave. Lieutenant-colonels .with 26 years' , service for whom no command can be found arc to be granted one year's leave, ' after which they will be placed on the retired list, with a pension of a mini- • mum amount of £700 a year. It will be necessary to retrench compulsorily in the next six years about 400 1 officers commissioned between August, : 1914, and December, 1920.