GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 230, 23 June 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright The Springboks were accorded a civic welcome in Sydney. Mr. T. Livingston, Assistant Minister of Agriculture, has resigned from the Victorian Cabinet owing to ill-health. Baron Edmond Rothschild, of Paris, has given ten million francs for the development of scientific research to help young scientists and inventor: Oxford and Cambridge have decided to give a Blue for aviation. The first inter-University flying race is fixed to take place at Hendon on July 16. It is estimated that the year s railway revenue in Victoria will amount to from nine and a half to ten millions. It is anticipated there will be a deficit ot 22400,000. Sir Joseph Cook has announced that the Federal Ministry is opposed to another wheat pool, and fully approved the South Australian decision against a compulsory pool It is now definitely established that hist week’s earth tremors at Sydney were caused by tho destruction of guncotton which had become obsolete at Liverpool Camp. As n result of complaints regarding damage to buildings the explosions have been suspended. Owing to alleged outrages by French coloured troops, a meeting at Pretoria, representing the Women’s National and Women’s South African Parties, decided to send e. cable message to General Smuts and ask him to do his utmost to get coloured troops ’removed from the Rhino occupation zone. The New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association has rescinded the resolution previously carried, ndoptipg the recommendation of the sporting conference on the new definition of ama ‘® u J” ism, that professionals lie allowed to hold office in clubs.