PALESTINE SETTLEMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 2

PALESTINE SETTLEMENT

PUBLIC WORKS LOAN. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, July 14. In the House of Commons, Sir P. Cunliffe Lister (Colonial Secretary) dealing with Palestine, said that the British Government concurred in decisions of the .High Commissioners’ Tribunal of Inquiry regarding the settlement of the displaced Arabs there. It was proposed that the Palestine Government’s extensive programme of public works and re-settle-ment of the displaced Arabs should to a large extent, be financed by a loan of £2,000,000. The -British Government were satisfied that without drawing on Exchequer balances, the financial resources of Palestine were adequate to provide for the services of this loan, and to afford full security for the capital. It was proposed that the loan should receive the formal guarantee of the British Government. The public works would include a Jerusalem and Haifa water supply and drainage scheme, a hydrographic survey and an improvement of village supplies.

FAITH OF HIS FATHERS. 4 LONDON, July 15. Lord Melchett, although of Jewish birth, has been hitherto a member of the Church of England, in which he was baptised. To-day he embraced the Jewish faith, in the presence of two witnesses at thp North London Liberal Synagogue, the Rabbi of which conducted the ceremony. Later it was stated that Lord Melchett’s change of faith had no political significance, although he feels strongly as to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews. His change of faith was not the outcome thereof, but was due to his contact with Jews and with Palestine leading him to study Judaism. Lord Melchett’s father was Afred Moritz Mond, before he was knighted and later given a peerage, and his mother was Violet. Goetze.