NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4652, 2 February 1935, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The television committee, appointed by the Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood, last May, under the chairmanship of Lord Selsdon, has submitted its report. The committee’s general conclusion is that high definition television has now reached such a standard of development as to justify the first steps being taken towards the early establishment of a public television service of this type.

During an international tehriis match, played at Perth, Menzel (Czecho-Slovakia) twice stopped play and appealed to spectators to keep quiet during the play. Later Menzel had two cameramen removed from the sidelines. r

Messrs. Vickers, Ltd., entertained Sir James Parr at luncheon at Brookland Aerodrome on the occasion' of the trial flight of tfye first of New Zealand’s 12 Vildebees'te , torpedobombers. Pour of the planes wiil shortly be shipped.

Street fighting on an extensive scale occurred when Communist bandits attempted to release, their leader, Yuan-li, from prison in north-west Shansi (states a Shanghai message). Military forces, though caught uhawares, offered stubborn resistance, but eventually were compelled to abandon the gaol, from which the bandit leader and other prisoners were released by the Communists.

Mr. Isidor Lubin, a noted economist, representing the United States Government at the International Labour Office conference, demanded that a 40 hours 1 week should apply to as* many industries as possible throughout the world. He said the results of that policy in the United States had been most satisfactory.

The Secretary of State for America, Mr. Cordell Hull, has advocated a gathering of all interested nations for a conference on the reduction of trade barriers and the interchange of commodifies.

Mr. C. F. Campbell, presiding at the meeting of the National Provincial Bank in London, said that the evidences of recovery and of some confidence in its continuance, were highly encouraging, but it was essential to consider the outlook of trade for Britain’s foreign and oversea customers. -

Information was brought to Darwin by the pilots of the Empire air mail liner Arethusa that two well-known Australian airmen, Messrs. Ray Parer and G. Hemsworth, are missing between Mergui and Victoria Point, Burma, in mountainous jungle country.

The Manchester Guardian Moscow correspondent states that the -2000 delegates to the Soviet Congress in the Kremlin thundered applause for 15 minutes when Tuchachevsky, ViceCommissar of Defence, announced that the Red Army had almost doubled its fighting and defence power in the last four years.

Following the capsize of a dinghy off Cheltenham Beach on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Roy Valentine Rennie, a well-known accountant from Taumarunui, was drowned, and his son, Bruce, aged 6, narrowly escaped with his life. He was saved through the efforts of a 13-year-old boy, Charles Cook, of Hamilton, who was also in the boat.