NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

UABi.h ClilSijs ASSOCIATION COrVRIGH'I LONDON, March 8. Sculling; champion H. A. .Barry was presented with a silver cup and cheque from-the Fishmongers’ ’Company at a .banquet''held in the Fishmongers’ Hall. At the inter-’Varciey sports held at Oxford to-day the New Zealand Rhodes scholar, \V. G. Kaaugher, won the 120 yards hurdles iu 16 3-ssec. BERLIN. March 9. In response to an agitation by German agrarians, the Federal Council has reduced the quota of frozen meat to enter the country duty free to <50,000 tons annually. The ordinance will be submitted to the Reichstag before the dissolution of that body, as party government’s emergency legislation. BELGRADE. March £■ M. Bad itch was responsible for another uproar in Parliament wnr.m he declared that Serbia instigated the Great War with her eyes on the Adriatic, which she is now neglecting. Members of the Government party attempted to strike M. Raditch. and the proceedings became so violent that the session was temporarily suspended. LONDON. March 9. Mr Dunlop Young, the veterinary surgeon, will sail by the Orsova on March 31 to attend conferences of veterinary officia\s at Melliourne. Thence he goof to New Zealand to see •shcep-kioiimj. He returns to Sydney at the end of June. He tours all the States for two months, and later returns to Now Zealand to see calf-kill-ing. Then he goes to Canada and the United States. He hopes to hold informal conferences with inspectors, with a view to reaching a solution of mutual problems. LONDON. March 8. Flappers of England celebrated their Franchise victory at Queen’s Hall tonight at <i monster meeting of delegate" nan 147 of the principal women’s societies. The Rt Hon. Stanley Baldwin was the principal sneaker and called on all women to realise that their new freedom without obligation was merely licence and anarchy. The Board of Trade estimates provide foe £2.037.000 for the purchase of A”«tralian zinc concentrates", the sales id which are expected to return £1.502.i non.