CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24886, 28 May 1946, Page 5

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Prayers for Poll on Sunday Cinemas. —With breaks only for tea and cakes, a congregation of 700 in a Baptist Church in Torquay prayed throughout Saturday night for the opposition’s success at a poll being held to-day on the opening of cinemas on Sundays. The cinemas stated their case on the screen and by loudspeaker vans touring the streets. The congregation of another Baptist church last night took over th§ praying.—London. May 27. Anti-Inflation Measures in Hungary. —Seven hundred Government decrees will have to be put into operation to start on August 1 new .reforms, including new money and stricter rationing in an effort to halve, Hungary’s runaway inflation. Financial authorities state that the new money will be based on crops, increased coal production, and a reduction in the number of State employees. The value of the pengo meanwhile has dropped to 15.000.000,000 to the dollar.—Budapest, May 26.

Bishop of Hereford in Belgrade.— Thousands crowded the Belgrade Cathedral and the nearby streets in an effort to hear a service conducted by the Bishop of Hereford (Dr. R. G. Parsons). After the sermon the Bishop appeared on the balcony with high Orthodox Church dignitaries, while the crowds called: “Hurrah for Britain!”—Belgrade, May 26. Javanese Volcano in Eruption.—lndonesian sources state that Montsemereoe, a 12.000 ft volcano near the east coast of Java, is erupting ashes, rocks, and mud. It has destroyed neighbouring ricefields and villages.—Batavia, May 25.

British Electric Car—“ The prototype of an electric motor-car similar to that being designed in Australia and the United States has been completed by a leading British manufacturer.” says the “Daily Telegraph.” “The model has been tested, and is capable of 50 miles an hour with a good performance on steep hills.”— London. May 26. French Cycling Race.—The British cycling champion. R. H. Harris, won the Prix de la Victoire, covering the last 200 metres in 12 2-ssec. Vidal (France) was second, and Nielsen (Denmark) third.—Paris. May 26 London Bell for New Zealand School. —A bell from the Avonmore School in Fulham, a populous district of West London, where the school was destroyed by enemy action, will hang in a New Zealand school as the result of a request to the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr Jordan), while he was in the Dominion by the secretary of the Waitara School, who asked for such a memento for the new district high school which will be opened next year. London County Council students will suitably engrave the bell.—London. May 27. N.Z. Passes in AAf.IJVIech.E. Examination.—The Institute of Mechanical Engineers announces that the following New Zealanders passed in Section C of the associate membership examination, held last October:—G. D. B. Chambers, of Petone; R. G. Collins, of Takapuna; A. W. Dennistoun-Wood. B. A. McConnel. and H. E. McLenaghin. all of Wellington; J. C. Marks and R. W. Stanton, of Auckland; G. C. Nicholson, of Levin.—London, May 27.