NEWS FROM OVERSEAS
late cables IN brief.
Soviet’s Dangerous Front.— “ The Times’ ” Riga correspondent states that the Soviet, declaring that the countryside is the most dangerous front in its service owing to Kulaks’ terrorism and the peasants’ incessant attacks on officials resulting in reluctance to accept posts in country districts, has ordered the compulsory insurance of life and limb as a guarantee of compensation for officers in the events of mutilation, their dependents benefitting in the event of death.
Car Goes Over Cliff. — A motor car containing a family fell over a cliff at St. Albans near the Hawkesbury river (N.S.W.) yesterday. Mrs. Daisy Sithers was killed and her husband and four children injured.
British Parliament.— Parliament will reassemble on Tuesday to continue the session begun in November. Practically the whole of the first week in the House of Commons will be devoted to a discussion of the De-rating Bill.
Rabaul 'Administration.—A Rabaul message states that a public meeting unanimously carried a resolution that the citizens of Rabaul no longer had confidence in the administration and that a petition asking for the removal of Administrator Wisdom be forwarded to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. 8. M. Bruce.
Wine Harvest. — An official estimate of the French wine harvest is 73,000,000 hectolitres compared with 57,000,000 in 1927.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 21 January 1929, Page 5
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