NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 May 1928, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION—JJV ELECTRIC TELEG RA PII—COPYIUG HT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) UONDON, May 1. Owing to Sir Douglas Hogg’s elevation to the peerage, a by-election was held at Marylebone. ft resulted in tlie return oi Sir Pennell Podd (Conservative). UONDON, May 1. 'Many Unionists who have returned from spending the week-end in their •constituencies are convinced that the kerosene tax will press heavily on the working classes iu country districts, owing to the great increase in oil stoves for heating and cooking. Generally the opinion is that the tax cannot be supported, but if it be dropped Mr. Winston Churchill’s pool will be depleted to the extent of £'2,500,000. It is suggested thfit Mr. Churchill may withdraw the sugar restriction in order to recover the money which the kerosene concession will cost. UONDON, April 19. Dr. Dorothy Uogan, who* surprised the world last year by confessing that she invented a tale about swimming the English Channel, has not yet finished with her escapade. She has been summoned to appear .’before the General Medical Council to explain her conviction on a charge of making a false declaration in connection with her story. NEW YORK, April 18. It is reported from Hollywood that •the famous screen star Miss Mary Pic-kford {Mrs, Douglas Fairbanks) has

announced her retirement from the films. Her press agents give the recent death of Miss Pickford’s mother as the chief reason for her retirement, J>ut there are other reasons, including tlie -star’s physical difficulty in avoiding stoutness, and the realisation that she cannot continue successfully to play the juvenile or ingenue parts with which the public is so familiar. That is how she wishes to be remembered. The star, and her husband Will leave New York on May 5 for Pome, where they will charter an aeroplane to fly to Algiers and Cairo. • ' "