LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1936, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

SYDNEY, August 7

Golden Wings has disappointed her owner so much that it has been decided to send the New Zealand horse back to the Dominion on the first available boat, for a holiday.

PERTH, August 7.

The Westralian Farmers Limited, which operates chartered tramp ships, announce that the line intends to bring into operation rates 30 per cent, less than those fixed by the Overseas Shipping Conference for the shipment of wool overseas.

AUCKLAND, August 7

To see another school, meet other children, and be conducted round the city, eighty children from the Wanganui Intermediate School arrived by train this morning, as the guests of the Kowhai Intermediate School, with which they will compete, in various games. A civic reception was accorded on the school grounds by the Mayor of Mount Albert. Mr R. E. Ferner. The visitors, who are accompanied by the headmaster (Mr E. H. Rountree) and the chairman of the School Committee (Mr W. S. Jones), were accorded a most enthusiastic welcome by the assembled school children, and billetted by friends of the Kowhai School. A round of week-end entertainment has been arranged.

LONDON, August 6

“The Star,” says: Sir C. Bullock refused further to discuss the disclosures. He has no plans for the future. He loses a substantial pension through his dismissal. He had a salary of £3OOO. He has issued a statement saying that with a view to discounting suggestions of my mercenary motives, I believe the remuneration of the Chairman of the Imperial Airways is £2OOO yearly, which is substantially lower than mine, although I am not certain regarding this, as I had not sought to carry the matter to a stage where such concrete factors emerge.

RUGBY, August 7

Sightseers in Sandringham grounds had a surprise, yesterday. Unknown to them, the King had flown to Sandringham to pay a visit, to his mother, prior to leaving on his holiday, and, during the afternoon, both of them walked round the gardens together, receiving hearty greetings from holiday makers, to several of -whom they spoke. It is not usual for members of the Royal Family to use Sandringham gardens on days on which the public are admitted.

LONDON, August 6

Mr Ruttledge, who has returned, says he is certain that Mount Everest will be climbed some day. He says: "I will not try again. I am now 51; I am too old. There should be no difficulty in obtaining Tibetan permission for further attempts.”

NELSON, August 7

The Cook Strait Airways third Rapide ZKAEC, was shipped from London yesterday. The machine will be assembled at the Company’s hangar at Nelson. This plane will have a 3001 bs pay-load greater than the present planes. The Company has every confidence that all three machines will he busily occupied’ during the next Summer.

WANGANUI, August 7.

In a letter to the “Herald,” W. A. Izard, solicitor, draws attention to the wasteful expense involved from continuing the sittings of the various relief Commissions in the Dominion, when the Minister recently stated that as soon as the new mortgage legislation came in through the front door, the old legislation would be pushed over the back fence. Mr. Izard has written to Mr. Nash.

ST. LOUIS, August 0

All the occupants, eight persons, including both pilots, of a commercial plane, on route to Chicago, wore killed when the machine crashed a thousand feet shortly after the takeoff. The cause has not been determined.

WASHINGTON, August 6. The State Department to-day informed the Spanish Government it would expect it to provide adequate protection for American property in the revolutionary area, and indemnification for damage suffered. The representations received “sympathetic consideration.”

RUGBY, August 6.

The note circulation £454,406,397 shown in this week’s Bank of England return, is a new high record. The circulation at the same time last year, the height of the holiday season, was £411,835,941, and after the autumn de- 1 cline rose at Christmas to £434,506,785.

The recent increases in circulation have been in part due to foreign demand on account of hoarding, and has been associated with the rise in the last three months of about £41,000,000 ip the Bank’s holding of gold.