CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BRITAIN’S REVENUE. [by CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.j RUGBY, September 4. Exchequer returns show, exclusive of self-balancing items, that the total of ordinary revenue received during the current financial year to September 1, amounted to £237,005,278. At the corresponding date in 1933, the amount was £241,157,045. The total ordinary expenditure to date was £287,228,208, which was £2,500,000 more than at September 2, 1933. The revenue collected in the past week totalled £8,588,865 of which £4,951,000 represented inland revenue and £3,926,000 Customs and excise. Receipts from income tax to date at £47,339,000 exceed by over £7,000,000 the amount collected by September 2, 1933, but revenu j from estate duties is £3,000,000 lower at £36,130,000. BEQUEST TO OXFORD RUGBY, September 4. A bequest of £30,000 to Oxford University be expended for the promotion of Oxford medical education, was made under the will of the widow of Doctor Charles Williams. LOCUST CONFERENCE. RUGBY, September 4. The third International Locust Conference will meet in London on September 11. Invitations have been issued to Governments of locust infested countries in Africa, Western Asia, and leading experts in the question of locust research and control will be present. The devastation caused by locusts in Africa and Western Asia during the last few years is so great that the necessity for dealing with the problem in a comprehensive way has became obvious. The Committee on locust control appointed in 1929 to study the locust problem came'to the conclusion that its solution could not be approached if a “strict territorial basis were preserved. No organisation could hope to elucidate the origin and migrations of locusts unless it secured the co-operation of the countries concerned.” The results so far obtained give definite grounds for hoping that the locust problem will ultimately be solved. HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATIONS. LONDON, September 5. All leave for the Metropolitan City Police has been stopped for Sunday next, when a Fascist demonstration, and also a Communist counter demonstration, are planned at Hyde Park. Special constables will undertake traffic duties, and the mounted branches of the two forces will also be considerably augmented.

MEAT IMPORTS. LONDON, September 5. The “Sun-Herald” Service learns that the Government has restricted imports of pork and pork products from the United States and the Argentine to a quantity 40 per cent, below the imports for the first six months of 1934. The quota applies retrospectively from July 1 to December 31. It does not include bacon. All pork values have consequently risen from 15 to 20 per cent. It is understood that the Government, in conjunction with the regulation of other meats, is negotiating with Australia and New Zealand, with the object of reducing their exports.