News A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 10 December 1937, Page 5

News A Nutshell

An agreement with Siam on Imperial Airways’ Bangkqk-Hongkong service and the inauguration of the service from Bangkok on Sunday week is announced. —(8.0. W).

Advice has been received in Sydney that the British flying-boat Centaurus is due at Darwin on December 17 to begin a survey of possible bases for the flying-boat mail service. She will arrive in Sydney on December 24, after which she will visit New Zealand.

A stay-in strike has been started at the Caudron aeroplane works, says a Paris message, owing to the dismissal of 22 men for whom the management say there was not sufficient work. The Air Ministry is making an effort to settle the dispute but the management refuses to negotiate while the works are occupied.

A deputation from the United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, including Colonel Llewellyn Jones, will visit Australia at the invitation of the association’s branch in the New South Wales Parliament for the 150th anniversary celebrations.—(B.O.W.)

When a Los Angeles judge overruled a request by Mrs Liane Rubine, first wife of Jan Rubine, violinist, for increased alimony, she became enraged. She waylaid her ex-husband outside the court and rushed at him, waving her fists. Rubine ran out of range. She had contended that her monthly alimony of 125 dollars should be 200 dollars in order to defray the medical expenses of her paralysed daughter.