HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1936, Page 7

HOMELAND HAPPENINGS

TRADE WITH ROUMANIA [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, May 6. As the result of negotiations at Bucharest between the Roumanian Government and the United Kingdom -if legation, an agreement for the establishment of Anglo-Rumanian trading was signed on May 2. The agreement deals both v?ith commercial and financial debts. QUEEN MARY’S CAPTAIN Contrary to earlier intentions, the liner Queen Mary will not have two captains, when she sails on the maiden voyage on May 27. The decision that an additional captain was not necessary has been reached in view of the ease and smoothness with which during her trials, it had been shown she could be handled. Captain George Gibbons, who had been mentioned as an additional captain for the Queen Mary has been appointed to command another vessel. Full arrangements for broadcasts on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary have been made by the 8.8. C.

V .BUDGET LEAKAGE The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced at the Commons question time that the president of the tribunal of inquiry into the alleged leakage of budget secrets would be Mr. Justice Porter, one of the Judges of the King’s Bench Division, and two other members would be Mr. Gavin Simmonds and Mr. Roland Oliver, both King’s Counsel. The inquiry would open at the law courts on Monday next.