CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1933, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

N.Z. FREIGHTS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, August 9. Negotiations lor a new freight agreement regarding New Zealand produce are continuing. A decision is possible within a few days. RAILWAY FARES. RUGBY, August 9. British railway companies announce a, continuance of the special summer passenger fares until the end of 1933. The return fares will thus be at the pre-war rate of a penny a mile. SCOUTS’ JAMBOREE. BUDAPEST, August 9. A conference of Scout leaders decided to arrange a Scouts’ jamboree in Pacific countries at Melbourne, January 1 to 15, 1935, in connection with the City’s centenary. European countries will be invited to send contingents. RUSSIAN GRAIN-THEFTS. LONDON, August 10. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Moscow correspondent says: Thousands of children are enrolled in the agricultural areas as auxiliary police, to track .down grain thieves and the people damaging crops. It is officially stated that four thousand young Communists are thus engaged in North Caucasus alone. A typical report from the Journal of the Commissariat of Agriculture reads:-— “A party of boys and girls caught women cutting the ears of wheat, with scissors.”