LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1929, Page 7

LATE MESSAGES

SHANGHAI, March 22. Latest reports from Nanking state that 60,000 Nanking troops are mobilising in preparation for an anti-Hankow drive A number of foreigners have evacuated the Yangtze Valley. War between the Nanking Government and the Hankow clique is believed to be inevitable.

LONDON, March 22.

For the third successive year, a full million sterling, for the Empire Marketing Board does not appear in the civil estimates, in which this year £550,000 is set down, making £1550,000 short in the votes for three years. It is explained that the full amount can. be voted in the supplementary estimates if needed. In addition to the present vote there is £350,000 unexpended carried forward making available £900,000 from which the chief expenditures estimated are research and marketing, £482,000; publicity £360,000; the gross estimated expenditure on overseas settlement is £1470,000, an increase of £50,000. The chief provisions are: Land settlement development £615,000, assisted passages £692,000, settlement of migrants £550,000, preliminary training £51,000, provisions affecting New Zealand include a re-vote of £5OOO for advances to settlers on their own farms; £40,000 for assisted passages, and a grant of £20,000 for child migration.