NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 23 August 1927, Page 5

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. A tug foundered in the Gulf of Bothnia during a violent storm and wreckage was washed ashore. Six of the crew escaped in a small boat. A woman cook, who was asleep below, was drowned.

Every state of the Commonwealth and New Zealand is represented among the 500 members of the dental profession who are attending the Dental Congress, which was opened by the Victorian State Premier, Mr. Hogan. ~

As a sequel to raids by the Sydney police and taxation officers, writs have been issued out of the High Court on Emanuel Alfred and Louis Abrahams, financiers, for alleged offences against the Income Taxation Assessment Act.

The New South Wales Employers’ Federation has decided to withdraw from the Federal Council of Employers as it is felt that the bodies in other states do not fully realize the handicaps under which New South Wales employers are carrying on business. Although New South Wales represents 45 per cent, of the interests involved, it is claimed that the voice of the New South Wales Federation is not heeded in the Federal Council.

A seven year old boy who fell into into a sewer at New. York, was carried 11 miles, and emerged lafelv and was rescued by a waiting policeman,