News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 23 October 1936, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

The Southern Railway Company has decided to spend £1,000,000 on the continuation of the electrification of its outer suburban system as far as Reading. ;■ At the same time it will complete the electrification of various smaller sections in the Aldershot and Guildford areas. It is hoped that the work will be finished by 1939. —British Official Wireless.

Johnnie Summers, the former English welter-lightweight champion, is visiting Sydney to secure boxers for England, chiefly of the heavier class. He will later visit Ne\y Zealand. Summers says there is good money awaiting boxers of the heavier ranks in England, but the welter division is well represented,'

The Dover branch of the British Legion has decided that, after the town’s Armistice Day service on November 11, members of the branch will march to the cemetery at Dover and place a wreath on graves of Germans who died during the war and were buried there. —8.0. W.

The French Budget is expected to show a deficit of £250,000,000.

A message from Ottawa states that two of seven modern planes purchased in Britain have arrived.

Government support for voluntary organisations is to be part of the na- ( \iona! health campaign. Local educational authorities are being urged to appoint men and women organisers of physical training in their areas. At present less than' half of the 316 authorities employ such organisers.— British Official Wireless.

Dr. D. B. Copland, Professor of Commerce, University of Melbourne, has completed his course of lectures on Australia’s economic policy at the Lowell Institute, Boston. He sailed for England yesterday by the Queen Mary. • • ■ a The Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck, has accepted an invitation to visit Britain as the guest of the Government next month.—B.O.W.

Referring to the gift of £1,350,000 made recently by Lord Nuffield for the endowment of the Nuffield Institute of Medical Research at Oxford University, the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, said it was impossible to over-estimate all it would mean not only to research, but also to the health of the nation. The potentialities of a post-graduate school, such as the one now made possible at Oxford, were enormous. —8.0. W.