NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 December 1925, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT .SYDNEY, Dec. 20. Sydney was visited by a heat wave yesterday, the thermometer reaching JLO4 degrees' Fahrenheit. Many bush and grass fires caused considerable damage. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. The Russian information bureau here has issued, a statement declaring that the Russian wheat crop is now estimated at 646 million bushels, instead of 660 million as previously reported. The reduced estimates will leave a surplus of upwards of 200 million bushels of all grains, including wheat for export, “including exports alreadv made.” LONDON, Dec. 18. New. Zealand has handed over her pavilion as a free gift to the 'Wembley liquidators, saving New Zealand several thousands for demolition. The first batch of twelve girls, sisters of boys who went to New Zealand under the sheep farmers’ scheme, are sailing shortly. They will be taught domestic economy and the fighter branches of land work. The headmistress of a large elementary school at Blackburn reports that scholars who spent their infancy durine/ wartime are two inches shorter than the average. This is due to the poorer quality of food and the mental strain. The House of Lords has passed the Safeguarding of Industries Bill. The Daily Chronicle says that Cabinet agreed upon the Cecil research commitlee’s view that a tariff under the safeguarding procedure for the iron and steel trade is out of the question, and 4i subsidy is equally unwise. A solution must be found in the reorganisation of the industry. Evan .Tones, of Llanelly, reputed to be a millionaire, was found hanging from a tree in a quarry near his residence. He has I»een described as a modern Dick Whittington. He began life as a drapers’ boy and became a shipowner and colliery proprietor. At a dinner to the Australian and New "Zealand Medical Association, Sir Arbnthnot. Lane advised Dominion graduates to take their highest degree in England, and not to he attracted to American colleges. The hospitals here were most fortunate in having Dominion medical men attached to them. The future of surgery was perfectly safe in the hands of the Dominions. The strike of the police, whose disbandment had been ordered, has completely ended throughout Ulster, hollowing a conference at Londonderry, at which the Government’s terms were accented, the men resumed duty and the barracks were handed over to the officers.