TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17437, 24 April 1922, Page 6

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Local and General Final arrangements in regard to Anzac Day services are announced this morning.

The Otago Hospital Board and leading Dunedin medical men are in complete accord with Dr. Blackmore regarding the need for a national policy in the fight against consumption.

The attitude of the Church of England on the subject of religious instruction in schools was indicated at the annual meeting of the Association of the Love of God.

The chief executive officers of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association left Wellington on Saturday for Hamilton, where they will meet the Post-master-General.

A sudden but severe southerly gale on Saturday caused considerable damage to Uio Sumner reservoir, and also resulted in temporary interference with both the Lake Coleridge transmission lines.

All the local football competitions commenced on Saturday.

Memorial services in connexion with Anzac Day were held in many churches yesterday.

Foreign. The committee which has been sitting at Dublin for the past two months framing the Constitution of the Irish Free State lhae completed its labours.

Shootings and other lawless outrages continue in Belfast, Dublin, and other parts of Ireland.

At the end of March there were 6000 unemployed in Sydney and 7000 in the country districts. .

A basis of negotiations has been reached between the wireless operators and the Marconi Company.

Owing to the, stoppage of work in the British shipbuilding industry, shipowners are sending steamers to the Continent for repairs and refitting.

The American miners' leaders claim that the strikers now number 680,000.

Negotiations between the British. Engineering Employers' Federation and the 47 unions outside the Amalgamated Engineering Union have broken down, and tho employers liave ordered an extension of the lock-out.

A Pans message announces the death oi Joseph Oiler, inventor of the parimutuel system of betting.

A Melbourne message says shoals of letters have been received by the At-torney-General protesting against tlhe execution of Ross.

The Genoa Conference is expected to last another fortnight. Mr J. L. Garvin, editor of the London "Observer," says he is convinced it will achieve great and memorable results. •

The Russian delegates at Genoa, in their reply to the Allied Governments' Aote, say they are prepared to make a further step towards a solution and adjustment of differences, by accepting the stipulations laid down, provided adequate help is given. Russia to recover irom her present economic state.