NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 August 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

(British Oflicia.l Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 26.. The Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir Aisst-en Chamberlain, is due to leave ..Liverpool on Thursday in the liner Oreo ma on a health voyage to the western coast of North America', via Plama,ma Canal. He will) be absent to 'England for about ten weeks. Lady ■Chamberlain and their two young children will accompany him. Calls with be mado en route at Lo Rochelle, Santander, .Corunna, Vigo l , -Bermuda, Havana and. Cristobal at the Atlantia end of the Panama Canal. The voyage from Balboa. on the Pacific to San Francisco will be continued in the steamer President Adams. After a brief holiday in California, the party mil return overland across. Canada to Montreal. RUGBY, Aug. 26. Tire Government scheme, administered by the Ministry of Labour, to transfer boys of 16 or 17 yeans of age from distressed areas, and particularly from the coalfields, lias been in operation only a few months, but already nearly 1000 boys have been found -work and have set tied.-.in their new surroundings. The employers express much satisfaction with the excellent type of youth which they have engaged under the scheme. ' A total of 2500 boys are. now in training for transference, and the Ministry hopes soon to have placed '4OOO boys in work away from their homes. * -They .express the belief tlrat the immediate problem of unemployed] .boys and' yourt-lis in t«bo arenas mainly suffering from in'diiisitxdfiTi depression will be on the way .to solution) when 5000 hfive been transferred. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, August 25. To-day is the ninth anniversary of the opening of British civil aviation to the Continent. It is recalled that twenty passengers were .carried per week iri August, 1919. as compared with 2000 at present. On busy days 50 air .liners travel between .Croydon and Paris, while 50 tons of cargo are carried ’.weekly compared with a few small .packages in 1919. VANCOUVER, August 26. Mr. Scott,' a passenger in the missing ' aeroplane,- has been definitely identified as a former member of the House of .Commons lor the Bridgetown division of Glasgow in‘’l922. He w;as visiting Canada' for pleasure. There was ho trace of the ‘machine late on Sunday. It is believed the pilot mistook a heavy fog for a plowl bank, .dived under it, struck the water and foundered. SOFIA, August 26. Fourteen revolutionaries, supporters of ’the late M." Protogueroff who were visiting southern districts to investigate a popular movement against M. Michaeloc. were annihilated ,bv partisans of the latter after a desperate fight near Metyiomia, state reports from Macedonian sources.