CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1935, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

TASMANIAN PREMIER.

(Press Assn. —Copyright.)

LONDON, May 24

The Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, entertained the Tasmanian Labour Premier, Mr A. G. Ogilvie, at tea, prior to the latter’s forthcoming visit to Russia, where ho will be the first Australian Premier to visit the Soviet. M. Maisky asked him, when he goes there to make his comparisons, not between Russian and westernised countries, but between Russia now and before the revolution.

ROYAL VISITS.

RUGBY. May 23

The Prince of Wales travelled by air to the Castle Bromwich Aerodrome to visit the British Industries Fair, Birmingham. As the Prince went from the aerodrome, he was warmly greeted by crowds who lined the road. The Prince spent several hours inspecting the impressive display of Britain’s heavier industries, after which.he flew back to London. . The Queen paid an informal visit to the memorial exhibition now being held in London, of the works of the late C. S. Jagger, the distinguished British sculptor.

CANCER RESEARCH.

LONDON, May 24.

Doctor William Ewart Gye, who 22 years ago was a railway porter, has been appointed as Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Funds, one of the world’s most outstanding pathologist posts. . A surprise legacy enabled him to leave his humble occupation and to attend a secondary school. Later he became a science teacher. He saved enough money to study medicine at Edinburgh University, when he lived on ten shillings a week. His mother’s death led him to embark on the study of cancer.

FRENCH FINANCE.

LONDON, May 24.

> “The Times’s” Paris correspondent says: The Government with a falling revenue, and a creeping paralysis of industry and of exports, faces a prospective deficit of 133 millions sterling. Bold measures are therefore necessary and as a result, M. Flandin may ask on May 28 for special power to restore the situation, which already has raised the bogey of a Ministerial crisis.

ROAD CASUALTIES.

RUGBY, May 23

A decrease in road casualties is shown by the Transport Ministry’s figures for the week ending May IS, 112 being killed and 3962 injured, compared with 132 killed and 4966 injured, for tho week ending May 11.

THE POPE AND EUGENICS

VATICAN CITY, May 2-1

The Pope, receiving representatives of the Hospital Congress, condemned eugenics, and expressed distress that the subject was included in the Congress agenda, especially when a delegate stated that every country would follow Germany's example. The Pope expressed a hope that this would never happen. If it did the world would return to the horrors of ancient paganism, which produced beauty in art and immorality in social life. JUBILEE STAMPS. LONDON, May 24. Collectors are eagerly buying jubilee .--.tamps arriving by air mails from till parts of the Empire. Dealers sold mu of Australian and New Zealand seis, and as a result lhe series ar- already al. a premium. N’.Z. Fill'lT FOR SWEDEN. LONDON. May 24. Mr Coates stales he has suceessfnly concluded with the Swedish Ambassador negotiations which Sir J. I‘atr conducted for some lime lor the removal of tho extra duty of 2/- a case on New Zealand apples and peat’s entering Sweden, between May 1 and August 31. The agreement provides for tile temoval of tin' extra duty forthwith applying to limit landed in Sweden since the beginning of I May and si ill held in bond. I Though too lute to benefit, some eat lier varieties of the present season ' it will materially increase the possi-i lilities of later sorts like Sturmcrs. | and will be vety helpful in assisting! New Zealand to regain the market, from which she has been excluded since 1934. owing to the extra duty. .