MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 22 September 1922, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The U.S.A. House passed the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill over the President’s veto by 258 votes to 54. The Senate sustained President Harding’s veto of the bill by 44 votes to 28. Emigrants from the United Kingdom during the first half-year amounted to 75,234, whereof 18,337 went to Australia and 6,330 to New Zealand. Mr Hughes announced at Melbourne that the Commonwealth had signed an agreement with Victoria providing for the introduction of 2000 new land settlers, being an instalment in a comprehensive proposal to spend thirty million on immigration. Mr. A. Bruntnell, N.S.W. Minister of Education, announced that Mr. Peter Board, C.M.G.. M A.. Director of Education, will be retiring at the end of the year after eighteen years m the position. Mr Oakes (Chief Secretary N.S.W.) announced the Government proposed to fill the Sturt vacancy by the same method which operated during the previous Parliament. Mr. Horsington, the third Labour nominee will be elected to succeed Mr. w right. A representative meeting of citizens appointed a committee to take the necessarv steps for the erection of a memorial to petpetuate the memory of Henry Lawson, the poet, who died recently. K