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Grey River Argus, 17 June 1936, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

(Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Juno 15. Jesus College retained the Cambridge headship of the river. Guthrie’s disipmlitication was cancelled, after hearing the evidence. The value of the second prize, £7O. which he would probably have won. was awarded to Nortons, who win the team prize.

The -Mayors of Brighton, Hove, and Worthing are attending the opening, to-day, near Shoreham, of the new airport, which is the joint, enterprise of the three municipalities. It is so situated as to serve equally w(dl each of these important resorts. Air connections to the Isle of Wight, the west of England, and the Midlands will he available.

The Dukes of Bedford. Pueeleugh. Portland, Sutherland mid Westminster and Lords Londonderry, Bledisloe and Hirst, are associated With an appeal to celebrate the centenary of the birth of .Joseph Chamberlain, on July 8, when a. meeting at the Albert Hall will inaugurate a memorial fund, to enable a sustained campaign m support of Imperial ideals and mission and the needs of increasing the Empire s co-operation in trade, migration, defence, and foreign policy, for which they are seeking the co-operation of the leaders of industry and agriculture at. Home and overseas; also all realising that Imperial strength and unity are essential.

The treatment for hay fever, which has been given a trial over a period of five years at St. George's Hospital, London, proved successful in 99 per cent of the cases. The treatment involves the application by electricity of a eoating of ionised zinc to the inside of the nostrils. Three or four applications are given, alter which the majority of patients are free from attacks of ordinary hay fever for a year. Precautionary applications are given at the end of twelve months, ami again a year late, and after that there is usually no recurrence of the trouble.

LONDON, June. S. The Tuscan Star has been refloated. Thc< report’ dfiat Australia _ had agreed to the fundamentals of the British ain mail scheme was received with satisfaction in official quarters, wliich would not comment, pending confirmation. Dr. Earl Page stated that AngloAustralian air mail' negotiations' were still centred upon, the problem of the surcharge, on which no decision bad been reached. The question of the route to be taken w.'S likewise undecided.. BERLIN, June 8. Unemployment; fhnougliout Germany decreased by 272,900 during Mav, to 1,491,000. CANTON, June S. Shore leave of the Anglo-American Fleets on ihe Far Eastern, stations has

'been cancelled as a precautionary m ensure. , S.renuous efforts are being made to eompots'e the differences between Nanking and Canton Governments. Japan’s attitude thereto is described ns “watclhful and waiting.” She believes that the southern movement is’ directed mere again Nanking than againstt Japan.