NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 June 1928, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, June 24. The warship Australia, the new battle cruiser for the Australian Fleet, cm her initial cruise, will proceed via. Panama. She will spend four days at Wellington and is due at Brisbane on October 15. AIOSCOAV, June 24. The bust .shipment of sheep from South America, has reached Odessa in a .satisfactory condition. Soviet oificiuls state that it the experiment succeeds they intend to import 100,000 sheep from Uruguay annually. PARIS, June 25. Commandant Glaize, who has been organising a. commercial air service from Rangoon to Annum, lias returned. The service will run in conjunction with the British service from London to Australia, connecting at Rangoon, he states. It is proposed to establish bureaux of commercial aviation in IndoChina and France to encourage the use of a service which will bring Indochina within a few days of France. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 24. Air. John Snell, chairman of the commission to reorganise the Electricity Supply Act, anticipates that within tlie next seven or eight years the average price of electricity in Great Britain will be reduced to one penny pernnit. As a result of reorganisation in the north-west area the average price should be substantially below one penny per unit within a few years. 1 ‘ KILBY, June 24. In a speech at Rugby yesterday. Lord Hail sham, the Lord Chancellor, said that although unemployment still presented a grace problem, there iveie now 535,003 more people in work than lour vears ago and the buying power of wages was £100.000.000 more annually than in 1024. RUGBY, June 24. A tribute to the memory of one of the pioneers of trans-Atlantic: flying was paid yesterday by Lieutenant Stult-z, pilot of Aliss Farhart’s Atlantic seaplane Friendship, find Air Gordon, navigator of the machine. They flew to Allan Chester, and, after a civic reception, they laid a wreath on the grave of Sir John A! cock, who, with Sir Arthur AVhitten Brown, made the first- flight across the Atlantic in 1910,