NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 March 1928, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY rABI.F- PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT FAIRBANKS (Alaska), March 7. Captain Wilson, aviator and explorer, and Captain Eielson, a pilot, plan to start next week for Point Barrow in a monoplane. The distance is 509 miles. The preliminary hop to Spitzbergen is tentatively set for the first week in April. LONDON, March 7. The Commonwealth loan has closed. The underwriters expect to receive a large proportion ’LONDON, March 7. In the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, in answer to questions, said that after consultation with the party leaders in 1926 he had concluded that there was a preponderating opinion against the broadcasting of Parliamentary proceedings. He did not believe that opinion had substantially changed, therefore he did not propose to appoint a committee of inquiry on the subject. VANCOUVER, March 7. The Aorsmgi has sailed with 350 passengers and six hundred tons oi cargo, consisting of flour, lumber, box shooks, canned fish, eighty automobiles, and 350 crates of eggs. EDMONTON, March 9. A Bill providing for sexual sterilisation of feeble-minded has been passed by the Alberta legislature. It now awaits the assent of the LieutenantGovernor. Alberta is the first provime in Canada to pass such legislation.