CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 10

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT. ( PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT./ RUGBY, June 30. The annual report of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee shows that during the last financial year 83 new schemes for help were submitted by Colonial Governments. Aid had been given in a great variety of needs, including the construction of roads, bridges, hospitals, factories, provision of State supplies, and research into tropical problems, ranging from cold storage for bananas to ravages of mealy bug in coffee crops.

MINT MANAGER’S FORGERY

BELGRADE, July 1.

The former manager of the Yugoslavian mint was sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for forging dinars, eight thousand of which were discovered.

FRUIT CONFERENCE.

LONDON, July 1

The fruit conference is meeting in private, seeking means of reconciling the viewpoints of the English and Overseas delegates. Committees are seeking to draft recommendations, but it is recognised that, as thej- are working independently, they may conflict, and need subsequent co-ordina-tion in the full conference; thus, the deliberations are likely to be protracted.

The full council will meet on July 3, to consider the recommendations of the sub-committees.

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

RUGBY, July 1.

The British High Commissioner in Egypt, Sir M. Lampson, who returned to Cairo yesterday, is to-day meeting the Egyptian Prime Minister, to inform him of the result of his conversations in London. Nahas Pasha will later communicate this information to the Egyption delegation.