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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1927, Page 5

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SUVA, April 14.

Obituary: Mrs Crompton, wife of Robert Crompton, from heart failure. LONDON. April 13. Philip Trevor, in the “Daily Telegraph” welcoming New Zealand cricketers, urges that the team be not boomed in advance. “The extravagant forecasting,” he says, “is unjust to the visitors, and the South Africans and Australians were upset by it. We . hope that the New Zealanders will win the right to play an English test team.” LONDON, April 13. The Australian apple season commenced with a display of . apples outside Australia House. Sir J. Cook emphasised Australia’s ability to-sup-ply most of Britain’s apple requirements. Mr Angwin predicted West Australia’s doubling last year’s apple export this year. Mr Huxham said that Queensland's unexampled reception of the Duke of York was the most complete refutation of the English newspaper slander that Queensland was a Bolshevist State. LONDON, April 13. The British Broadcasting Corporation is experimenting with a view to broadcasting descriptions of Wimbledon tennis and big cricket. The supervisor considers that the public will not approve of the Australian plan of breaking in on an ordinary programme when the play takes an exciting turn. BUENOS AYRES, April 13. The Ministry of Agriculture’s third crop forecast for 1926-27 is six million ten thousand tons of wheat, with an exportable surplus on April l l2 of 2,988,225 tons. I L SYDNEY, April 14. At the disposal sale of Dunlop Stud, i | Norah Agnes realised 280 guineas and Biplane 260 guineas.