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Evening Star, Issue 21091, 2 May 1932, Page 14

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i,and sp > ‘iil-ToiiD- aevv •| fY MTimVAi I. • I.;i: (■- i! is umlcr-i i>‘vl i l -;. Xi.'l!, i iu 11 ion cxjxti, ;i KcrAA to-day lo •'. al l il iI y of ilwl i laid -i'ccil n-nrd Mvniy;. it I:- - ivy-: ft is ;-ni is!;;■ - I . '•W :; ;•,! ‘ ‘ ;-iai 1!i will prn- ] : !■;, i, i- m:do:st" d i ] i:: i .fa,. A..' A. i.- iavnurahlc. FLEXTIi LUATIONA PA I’IS. Aia*r I-The first election I'csiilts ‘-Ini'V ihui AI. Tardicu aad Al. Ii; rrioit were rc-dec fed by largo majorities. Gibers rc-clcctcd include the Ministers of Justice and Commerce (AIM. lleynaud and 801-1 1 i 1 1). ox-ITemier Painlcve, the ASinincr id Finance (AI. Flandin), the Socialist Loader (AT. Blum), and toe Bight Loader (AI. Marini. A Socialist (M. Bartlielniy) surj:; i; in;;:!y dol'ealod idle Communist Party' - dejmiy for St. Denis. 110 ha,! iioon in ilie Chamber since Ai. Lorin. deputy for Bordeaux, while awaiting the result, collapsed and died. The election we-- (pdri. The only excitin'; incident was at IVry Town Hall, where the staff are all Communists. A group of Nationalists climbed to the roof and hoisted the Tricolour. A sharp light followed. The police arrested twelve Communist clerks and porters. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales on ‘Change this afternoon: -Golden Point , fid. Sale reported : 1937, 51 per cent. Stock (Feb.), ,299. Sale reported after last call:— Union Bank, £G Os. OLD ACE PENSIONS CUT. Ministers this afternoon emphatically denied the statement that the old age pension reduction will apply to ilie maximum amount payable, regardless of what the individual receives. “It is ridiculous,” said Air Coates. “The cut must be on the amount received. If there is any mistake in the legislation wo will soon alter it.” Air Cobbe (Minister of Pensions), in agreeing Unit the cut applied to the amount received, said that old age pensioners would receive the same per month as previously, less 7s 7d, which was, roughly, a 10 per cent, reduction. —Parliamentary Reporter^

ALLEGATION AGAINST HOSPITAL AUTHORITIES. The allegation that the Dunedin Hospital had not advised him of the operation being conducted until after the death of his wife was made by the husband of Clara L. Fletcher, of Palmerston, who died in the operating theatre on April-27, at the inquest this afternoon. The coroner formally adjourney the inquest till Friday to allow the medical superintendent an opportunity to reply to the allegations. He said it was distressing that the husband was informed the previous nigbt that an operation might not be carried out immediately, and that be was at the hospital when the operation was actually being carried out. The husband staled that ho had left two telephone numbers at the hospital, but the only communication to reach Palmerston was advice of his Avife’s death.