NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 February 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION-r-COPYBIGHT. LONDON, Feb. 23. Mr. Winston .Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced the receipt of a further anonymous gift of £IOOO in five per cent, war stock towards the reduction of the National Debt. LONDON, Feb. 23. It is stated that the -estimates for the Navy, Army, and Air -Services, ■when presented to Parliament in March will show a total saving of between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 the iinajor portion of which will be effected by the Admiralty. The Air Force 'estimate- will remain approximately the -same as a year ago while .there will be a reduction in the Army figures of an amount which is variously given as from £50.0,000 to £1,000,00,0. LONDON, Feb. 23. The Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” states that owing to a pulp industry deadlock, employers, including the paper -mills, have locked out the employees until the dispute is settled. Their actioxi affects 57,000 workers, including 13,000 .paper-mill-ers. RIGA, Feb. 23. The Red Army’s tenth anniversary activities .have -commenced with grand parades at Moscow and Leningrad. Sixty new -military aeroplanes built, with money raised, by a -public fund, are inscribed: “Our answer to Chamberlain.” , The festivities include sports tournaments, excursions, military technical exhibitions and the inspection of muni, tion and other factories, and is lasting for four days. It is exclusively a military festival and not a public liolidav. LONDON, Feb. 21. A cut of eight and a half millions has been made in the civil service estimates, which total '292 millions and includes Empire Marketing £500,000. as compared with £1.000,000 last year, overseas settlement £1,330,000, as compared with 1,540,000. Department of Overseas Trade £321.000, as -compared with £329,000. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Ilford by-election, owing to the death of Sir Frederick Wise, resulted in .Sir George Hamilton (Conservative) being returned with 18,2(59 votes, Comyns Carr (Liberal) 13,621, Degruchy (Labour) 8922.