NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 November 1928, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 6. Th© weekly return gives the total number of unemployed in Britain as 1,374,700, which is 30,513 more than a> week ago and 268,643 more than a year ago. (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Nov. 7. The “Evening Standard” forecasts speedy developments in the conversion of vast railway plants throughout the country to the production of aeroplanes in the event of the railways be-ing-granted air powers. There are signs that Parliament will be asked forthwith to grant these. RUGBY, Nov. 6. Sir John Chancellor, Commissionerelect of Palestine and late Governor of Southern Rhodesia, addressing the British Cotton Growing Association at Manchester, said his one great hope I was that it would be possible to develop cotton in the Jordan Valley soon. LONDON, Nov. 6. Speaking at a dinner celebrating the j tenth anniversary of the Czecho-Sloy-akian Republic, Sir Samuel Hoare, Air i Minister announced that the assist-1 ance of President Masaryk and Dr. Benes had been secured for the removal of financial and other diffieul-1 ties enabling a regular air service from London to Prague, covering the distance in eight hours. It would be started in the spring. RUGBY, Nov. 6. Sir William Tyrell, the new British Ambassador in Paris, was the guest .of honour last night of the Association Grande Pretnsme and the Cerele Intern Hie. Sir William declared that the main objective of Fra neo-British nolicv-was the-promotion of peace and goodwill, and it was characteristic of that policy that, it wa« inclusive and not exclusive. It was directed against no one, and the two countries world, always welcome the collaboration of a.nv other country who. with them derire +,o, ream and goodwill in the world.