CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1937, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

DANISH PREMIER. [PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] RUGBY, April 7. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden) to-day entertained at luncheon the Prime Minister of Denmark (Mr A. M. Stauning). P.O. BUILDINGS. RUGBY, April 7. The building programme of the Post Office this year will involve an expenditure of £2,000,000. HOUSTON ESTATE. \ LONDON, April 8. The “Daily Mail” understands that the administrators of Lady Houston’s will intend to advertise in Australia for information about a number of relatives who are entitled to receive about one-sixth of her fortune. It is believed that in addition to her United Kingdom estate, Lady Houston’s Jersey estate exceeds £2,500,000. SUGAR CONFERENCE RUGBY, April 7. The Bureau of the International Sugar Conference heard a report from Dr. Sachs, of Poland, on the work done by the committee of statistical experts at its first meeting. The statistical experts recommend that the needs of the free market, that is the needs which are not met by home production or by the production of colonies enjoying preferential treatment, may be reckoned at a total of 3,170,000 metric tons for the crop year 1936-37. The bureau agreed to submit this figure for approval by the conference. TORRENTIAL RAINS NEW YORK, April 8. Reports from West Palm Beach say torrential rains, more devastating than hurricanes, flooded the rich growing area and destroyed crops. The damage is estimated at three million dollars. f PEACE CONFERENCE. WASHINGTON, April 8. Senator J. H. Lewis suggested in the Senate that Mr Roosevelt should call a world peace conference to meet here. He said they could thus remove the delegates’ prejudices from the influences of the Old World. He urged that it was an opportune time to revise the Versailles Treaty,

j BRITAIN AND BELGIUM. LONDON, April S. Mr Eden, at the invitation of the Belgian Government, will go to Brussels at the end of the month. OIL POLLUTION. RUGBY. April 8. Tn the Lords' debate on the pollution of sea by oil. Lord Stanhope said that although improvement has taken place it is difficult to get international action to prevent pollution. Stringent, orders given by British shipowners to their captains to observe the 50-mile limit had accounted for the improvement. The Government was anxious that the League of Nations should consider whether the draft convention prepared' by the committee of experts could not now be introduced and accepted, with; or without modifications, by the great maritime Powers. |