Todays News In Brief

Northern Advocate, 23 June 1937, Page 5

Todays News In Brief

AIR FORCE DISPLAY. The Royal party at the display to be given by the Air Force on Saturday, will include the King and Queen, and also the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, Prince Arthur of Connaught, and Prince and Princess Chichibu of Japan: Among the new types of machines to be shown at Hendon will be the very latest production of the British aircraft manufacturers.

OILFIELDS STRIKE. A message from Port of Spain, Trinidad, . states that, the British cruiser Kent is steaming there as the result of a strike riot on the oilfields, at the cutset of which a sub-inspector of police and a corppral were killed, and many police and civilians wounded. The telephones lines were cut. Two more men and a boy were killed and 26 people wounded when the police fired on the parading fighters. OUTBREAK OF SELLING.

Hopes of an improvement in the London stock market's were dispelled today with a further outbreak of selling. Gold shares had practically no support at lower levels. CRITICAL STAGE.

An acutely critical stage has been re&ched in connection with the steel strike in the United States. The president of the Republic Steel Corporation of Youngstown, Ohio, Mr. T. M. Girdler, stated today: “The corporation cannot and will not enter into any contract, oral or written, with the Committee for Industrial Organisation. 'The strike committee at Youngstown has telegraphed to President Roosevelt urging him to prevent the reopenings of mills, to “avoid in/time the very horrible thing that may be let loose in

the next 24 hours.” - •/The committee added: “Any attempt to reopen the gates will automatically bring terrific violence and bloodshed,”

BAN OPPOSED.—Strong representations against the placing of any ban upon the bringing of native children poi dance teams from Te Hapua to Whangarei, to take part in the poi dancing competitions at the Winter Exhibition, because of a case of in_ fan tile paralysis at Ahipara, over 90 miles from their home village, was made to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, this morning. The Minister undertook to telegraph the representations to the Min- . ister of Health.

MR. SAVAGE AND MIGRATION. The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Savage, conferred on the subject of migration with Mr Malcolm Macaid, Dominions Secretary, Mr MacDonald arranged to send full particulars of the organisation and types of people available when New Zealand is ready to resume migration. ■" Mr Savage said the Government was behind the idea of the, resumption -of migration. If Britain would , agrtee to open her markets to New Zealand products his country would be willing and able to settle many men on tile land. RACING CLAIM. •• ; ;

Mr Henry Edgar Russell, owher and trainer of the racing colt Mala,, has commenced an action in the Supreme Court, Sydney, against the Commissioner of Road Transport and Tramways, to recover £2OOO damages owing to injuries to Mala when it was struck by a tramcar at Randwick on Derby morning, October 3, 1936. The hearing was adjourned. : ! .