TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17429, 13 April 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local ud General. The Ghristchurch Tramway Board 'mod* a surplus on the year's operations of 466781,' as compared with the preview year's surplus of. £BB6. v The euro of £2,000,000 has been paid * by in American syndicate for the nghte - over certain secret processes in the manufacture of rnbber'discovered by a Jtfew.Zealander, and developed in a factory at Miramar (Wellington). "Tasßure yon," said the Prime Min- ' ist*r to a deputation at Wellington yesterday "that the Government will on no account consent to the affiliation of the Post and Telegraph Association with the Alliance of Labour. Wears not going to allow this thing to drift. Details of the tariff agreement between New Zealand and Australia will not be disclosed till it is placed before the respective Parliaments. The Management Commitrtee of the N.Z. Cricket Council has received a cable message from the secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club that a team under A. C. Maclaren, to visit New Zealand and Australia, has been sanctioned subject to satisfactory arrangements. The new Battgiora High School was opened yesterday by the Minister of Education, who also visited various schools in and about Christchurch. The Christchurch Presbytery has set lip a committee to go into the ques- . tion of the appointment of an official ' hospital chaplain. The recently elected General Committee'of the Canterbury A. and P. Asso- • Nation dealt with a number of lraport- ' ant, matters and set up subcommittees. fh© annual elections of School Com- , mittees were held last night. ? - ''jtije three rai]wayraen's unions in Britain have agreed'to join the new National Federation of Transport Work/■ft ' ? 'Orders for locomotives f(* Roumania .' vsSdat £5,000,000 have been placed Viffiarotain. .' jShjods hav* caused * millions of dol- ' of damage in several States *H*j*te Wfcttthe ranks of the Austrafejfojfcfoghcw Part? is discussed in mes!f»l4| from .Sydney w»d Melbourne. tf wfiieh nas been reported to »«« uucltes of SftWert* Contt of SSS^'Mtm-Jueim , been, appointed a §pH3^ ; Committee to enquire into 1h« K| ilfovtifie amount of tonnage under for the United Kingdom been made in Conference, the first* J ''lotrllines the proposals for xetruce or settle-