GENERAL CABLES
SLAUGHTER OF PEASANTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) BUCHAREST, February 27. It is uneonfinnedly reported th"»t beneath ‘the glare of searchlights, the Soviet frontier 'guards machine-gunned another party of hundreds of peasants trying to enter Roumania. The death roll is unkown.
A CONVICT'S RELEASE. NEW YORK, February 27. The “Sunday Express" says the convict Donovan, ldho saved the life of the Deputy-Commissioner at Dartmoor prison mutiny, has been removed to another prison for his own safety. He will shortly be released to begin a new life. MEMORIAL TO SHAPESPEABE RUGBY, Feb. 26. Tlie Prince of Wales has consented to open the new Shapospeare Memorial at Stratford-on-Avon on April 2.3, the poet’s birthday. TOBACCO GROWERS. SYDNEY, Feb 27. The Federal Government was criticised by tobacco growers who are condemning the revised tariff giving relief to the imported leaf, and placing the local industry in jeopardy at the very moments when success was assured, as growers in New South Wales and Victoria have a record crop in consequence of the protection afforded by the previous government. .The quality of the leaf is described as first class. The country party threatens to join Labour in defeating Government on this issue.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1932, Page 5
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