HELP ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 9

HELP ENGLAND.

Canada Would Not Hesitate In Time of Peril. PRIME MINISTER IN PARIS. (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, July 2. "Some imagined since the Imperial Conference that Canada wished to withdraw from affairs of the British Commonwealth of Nations," said the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, at the ceremony of opening the Canadian Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition. "That is entirely untrue," he said. "We like to manage our own affairs but any threat to England would immediately bring Canada to her side." EX-SOLDIERS' GRIEVANCES. IMPERIAL WAR VETERANS. (Received 12.80 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 2. Two hundred Imperial war veterans declaring that they are unable to secure redress of war disabilities from the Imperial or Canadian Governments are preparing a petition to the King. HALIFAX LIVING. FOR REV. CANON JAMES. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. The Rev. Canon Percival James, vicar of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, has been appointed a vicar at Halifax, Yorkshire. The appointment is by disposition of the King. The Rev. Canon James was vicar of St. Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, from 1920-29, and was temporarily vicar-general in Wellington before his appointment to St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in that city. Son of a Durham vicar, he served in Egypt and Mesopotamia during the Great War. He married, in 1923, Lilian May, daughter of Sir George Fen wick, of Dunedin.

Canon James preached the sermon for ( this year's Anzac Day service, in St. Pauls Cathedral, London, basing liis address on the text "Guide our feet in the way of peace." MARKETS STEADY. FRENCH CAPITAL'S PLIGHT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. The Exchange Equalisation Fund Bill, increasing the fund by £200,000,000 to £500,000,000, was passed without a division at the third reading in the House of Commons. [ The markets are quiet, with the franc steady around 129 to the pound. There is little sign of French capital returning. Oil and gold shares are subject to liquidation from Paris. U.S. COURT REFORM. COMPROMISE MEASURE. (Received 12 noou.) WASHINGTON, July 2. Senator Robinson introduced a compromise for the Supreme Court reform measure, ostensibly having the approval of President Roosevelt, under which the President is empowered to appoint four additional justices at the rate of one each year for each of the sitting judges who has reached the age of 75. CROPS RUINED. ' PIONEER FARMER'S SUICIDE. i (Received 1 p.ni.) WINNIPEG, July 2. A message from Saskatoon states that Fred Hailes, a prominent pioneer cn-ower, whose crops have been ruined, ; was found dead in a field with a gun [! bv his side. I Heat continues to take toll of crops, , invading Manitoba and the hitherto I i n-or.iis'.r." fi-ov.th Saskatchewan. _ The ■ drought "is extending north. Rain is i needed everywhere in the pmiriea.