LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1934, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON, April 19.

At a meeting of Imperial chemical industries, Sir Harry McGowan summed up remedies for Japanese competition, as efficiency of organisation currency stabilisation and co-operation with the Japanese producers, with whom there should be closer discussion. The “Evening Standard” referring to the fight for the Eastern shipping trade says that the HamburgAmerica’s Nord-Deutscher’s two seventeen thousand tonners now being constructed, have a speed of 21 knots. Italy is planning to build 24 knot ships for passengers, mails and fine cargo only. Such speed was never before dreamed of in the Oriental trade, where only the Peninsular line ever attempted to exceed 17 knots. PARIS, April 19. Th British Rugby League has informed the French League authorities that they will be allowed to join the International Board as soon as they have proved their vitality. LONDON, April 19. As the Orford does not arrive at Southampton till one o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, it will be impossible for Woodfull and others to participate in the official Anzac ceremonies, but they will go immediately by road to London to place a wreath on the Cenotaph. LONDON, April 19. The tennis player, Austin, is confined to bed with gastric influenza/ and is unlikely to participate in the British hard court championships at Bournemouth, in which Perry defends the title. An exceptionally strong entry for the singles, which is limited to thirty-two, includes Malfroy. LONDON, April 19. To-day’s surprise cricket item is that Jardine is to report the Test matches for London newspapers. LONDON, April 19. The Republican Army court-martial dismissed, with ignominy, Price and O’Donnell, two officers found guilty of numerous acts of gross indiscipline. LONDON, April 19. The House of Lords read a second time the Petroleum Production Bill, vesting in the Crown property in petroleum with Britain. OTTAWA, April 19. Major Douglas concluded the social credit hearing here, before the Commons Banking Committee, without submitting a plan for Canada. He offered plans for New Zealand, which Colonel Ralston, producing the figures declared were of little importance.

' LONDON, April 19. Colombo’s reputation paralysed wagering on the Craven Stakes, which he won by four lengths in a canter. He has already won eight races, yielding £lB,OOO. AUCKLAND, April 20. The Native Affairs Inquiry Commission, to-day, resumed the examination of Edward P. Earle, Registrar to the Tokerau and Waikato Maniapoto Land Boards. He said he had only a superficial knowledge of the details of the method under which stores were bought and distributed. The Board was very much in the hands of the field officers. There were 727 development units. He thought the accountant or stores clerk could give information as to stores control methods.

Cyril George Collins, representing the Controller and Auditor General, produced the minute book of the Maori Purposes Fund, and read various minutes. He said that usually only a quorum was present. At one meeting there were present the Native Minister, the Maori M.P. for the South Island, and Dr. Buch, who was then in New Zealand on holiday. That meeting passed a resolution authorising expenditure on a Maori football team, and a visit to Rarotonga. Witness would not express an opinion as to the eating up of £9OOO capital and £3OOO for education purposes. “As the result of my Inquiries, I am as convinced now as eight years ago, that the Maori Purposes Fund Control Board' has been guilty of a scandalous breach of trust, in the administration of its affairs and that in the administration of its funds, it has been prodigal, partial, arbitrary and unjust,” declared Roy Cecil Clark, Principal of Wesley College, Paerata, in evidence to the Native Affairs Commission, to-day. He also said that careful examination of the Board’s expenditure in the last five years gave one a feeling of watching an Eastern potentate in action. He asserted, in the course of a lengthy statement, that 15 per cent, of the amount spent by the Board on education in recent years, had been spent on East Coast natives, and there was also a definite denominational bias.