GENEVA MEETING.

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

GENEVA MEETING.

RAW MATERIALS QUESTIONS. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY. July 2. The committee studying raw materials concluded its meeting at Geneva and adopted a provisional report. Another session is proposed to be held on September 1. Well known personalities in the intellectual world will meet in Paris this year for sessions of the League International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. The agenda includes literature, arts, archaeology, museums, teaching, social investigations and so on.

HUGE U.S. DEFICIT. FOE MR. ROOSEVELT'S TERM. | (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 2. Budgetary statistics for the financial year reveal that the deficit for the first four fiscal years of the Roosevelt Administration's existence totalled 13.048.000.000 dollars, and that the public debt increased by 13,801.000.000 dollars. THREE NEW WARDS. LORD NUFFIELD GIVES £ 30,000. i J (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 2. j Lord Nuffield lias jjiven £30.000 to the K.-iyal Berkshire Hospital for child- : ron's, maternity and surpical wards.

KUIAL WBLSM VISIT. THROUGH DISTRESSED AREAS. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, July 2. It is stated Unit when Their Majesties visit Wales on .Inly 14 they will travel from Cardiff to Swansea through some of the distressed areas, by way ol Pontypridd and Neath. NO ROYAL VISIT.

BUT EARL BALDWIN WILL GO. SYDNEY, July 2. It is authoritatively stated that the Duke and Duchess of Kent will not visit Australia next year for the New South Wales sesquicentenary celebrations, but Earl Baldwin and Sir .Tosiah Stamp will be amonjr the distinguished visitors on that occasion.

FILM STAR'S ACT. SAVED GODCHILD'S LIFE. LOS AKCKLES, July 2. The film actress. Dolores del Rio. saved the life of her godchild. Dolores Ellsworth, aged two. who fell into the former's swimming pool. Tlic actress dived in and brought the child up from the bottom, resuscitating her before calling in a doctor. COST MILLIONS. RAIL ELECTRIFICATION. British Official Wireless. RVfiBY, July 2. The Southern Railway Company's main line electrification between Umdon and Portsmouth, completed at a cost of £3,000,000, was opened yesterday. NEW ADMINISTRATOR. FOR NORFOLK ISLAND. SYDNEY, .July 2. Major-General Sir Charles Rorenthal has been appointc.l adr'ii'.i-trator <>f Xorfolk Island in succession to Captain C. R. Ppn"pj r