CABLE BREVITIES
An overloaded ferry boat capsized on tile Tomako River, states a ’lokio message. Twenty-eight Koreans, men and women, were drowned. * The colossal Sydney Harbour Bridge will be officially opened ou Alarch la, 1932, states a Sydney message. Leading public bodies are. taking steps to celebrate the occasion fittingly. ♦ ♦ ♦ Canada will not appoint a Federal Wheat Board, the Premier, Mr. R. B. Bennett, stated in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Wednesday. An alternative suggestion has been made to the prairie Premiers. Miss Nellie Stewart, the famous Australian actress, left £15.961, states a Sydnoy message. The major portion of her estate is bequeathed to her daughter, Nancy e Lyn ton. wife of the actor, Mayne Lynton, and Nancye’s son. A motor-car’s vibration.enables a deaf person to hear almost better than the ordinary driver, declared a deaf Birmingham ear specialist, who was supporting a deaf man’s application for a license to drive a public vehicle carrying 32. * * * Mr. Hector Maequarric, of New Zealand. author of "We and The Baby, with his companion, Mr. Richard Matthews, has arrived at Darwin by the Mangola with a baby car in which they nre touring tlie world. The date of their departure is unsettled.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19310717.2.81
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 249, 17 July 1931, Page 9
Word Count
201CABLE BREVITIES Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 249, 17 July 1931, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in