CABLE BREVITIES
The death is announced from Adelaide of Senator J. H. Chapman, a member of the Country JParty. * * The trip will combine pleasure with consultations on administrative problems at Porto Rico, Virginia Islands, and other places. » * » President Hoover will leave late on Tuesday aboard the reconditioned battleship Arizona on a ten-days’ cruise of United States possessions in the Caribbean. » * » Baity Car Record. With 97.09 miles per hour for a kilometre run, and 96.93 m.p.h. for a mils run, G. Eyston, driving a super-charged midget car at Brooklands, broke Sir Malcolm Campbell’s baby car world’s record. Brighter Reports. The latest bulletin states that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden, had,a restless night, due no doubt to the severity of the examination he had undergone, states a British official wireless message. He was, however, free from pain and was disposed to sleep. His general condition was good. The condition of Lord Stamfordham, Private Secretary to the King, is a little more satisfactory, but his progress must of necessity be slow. He passed a fair night. * * * Close Division. There was a close division in the House of Commons on Friday during a debate on the Mines Department Supplementary Estimates, when in a small House the Government majority fell to 5, states a British official wireless message. A division was taken to an amendment to reduce the vote, the criticism being mainly directed against the payment of £7OOO yearly to Sir Ernest Gowers as chairman of the Coal Mines Reorganisation Commission. The amendment was defeated by 173 votes to 168; the minority included nine Labour members. Twenty Liberals voted with the Government.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 145, 16 March 1931, Page 9
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