CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

PENSIONS IN BRITAIN [PBIEBB ABBN. —COPYRIGHT.! RUGBY, April 15. The question of pensions arose out of the motion for the adjournment in the House of Commons. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lieutenant-Colonel D. J. Colville) replied, saying that a little more than a qharter of the total of social service expenditure went in old age and widows’ pensions. The gross cost of pensions, contributory and non-con-tributory, was £95,000,000, to which the Exchequer contributed £65,000,000. It was estimated that .in 40 years’ time the gross cost of the existing scheme, without improvement, would be £147,000,000, of which £113,000,000 would fall on the Exchequer. STOCK EXCHANGE SALARIES NEW YORK, April 15. New York Stock Exchange employees’ salaries are being cut from 5 to 12 per cent. The reductions take effect as from April 1. CINEMA STRIKE LONDON, April 15. The cinema operators* strike for higher wages and shorter hours threatens to extend from London, where 1500 members of the Electrical Trades Union are idle to Manchester and Hull. The London cinemas opened but many had to close for from one to three hours. FRENCH MINISTERS FOR LONDON LONDON, April 16. The Press announces officially that the Prime' Minister of France (M. Daladier) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. Bonnet) have accepted the invitation of the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) to go to London to study the European situation and to arrange the final details of the visit of the King and Queen to France. SCIENTIST’S SUICIDE. ’ LONDON, April 17. Hugh Ramage, the septuagenarian scientist, whose researches proved valuable for the prevention of sheep diseases in Australia amt New Zealand, was found' dead at his home at Norwich, with his throat cut. "TOMATO” RUBBER. MILAN, April 17. “Corriere Dellasera” announces that after six years’ experiments, a Parma chemist, Doctor Mauri, succeeded in obtaining “excellent rubber” from tomato skins.