Late News

Northern Advocate, 13 December 1937, Page 6

Late News

AUSTRALIAN TRADE MINISTER ARRIVES

Lieutenant-Colonel T. W. White, Australian Minister of Trade and Customs, arrived in Wellington by the Awatea to-day. Interviewed, Colonel White said he was in New Zealand at the request of the New Zealand Government. and there should be few trade problems incapable of adjustment. The present should lie the time to bring British-speaking communities closer together for mutual help and support. WOOL MILLS START AGAIN The Onehunga Woollen Mills are In Till swing again to-day after a week’s idleness. Over 100 employees failed last Monday to begin work, striking in sympathy with the claims of girl weavers for the adjustment of a number of grievances. This morning work was begun at the usual hour. LUCKT ESCAPE Passengers by a suburban bus company bus had a miraculous escape from serious injury shortly before noon to-day when the bus in which they were travelling from the city to Te Papapa came into collision with a shunting train at the level crossing at Captain Spring Hoad. Te Papapa. The back of the bus was torn off and a passenger occupying a rear seat was thrown on to the road, and suffered facial injuries. . ; CANCER CURE FORECAST | The cure for cancer will not come through radium or X-ray treatment, I but probably from seme agent in- ' jocted into (ho bloc*:* stream, accord- i ing to Mr. Cecil P, G. Wakeley, one of the foremost surgeons of England. 1 who, with Professor A. Huggett, an eminent English physiologist, arrived i b.V the Awatea to-day to conduct tel- '■ lows hip examinations at Dunedin for the Royal College of Surgeons. England CHILD’S EODT FOUND The body of a male infant was found besjcte the Kaikorai stream, near the city, by children yesterday, says a Dunedin message. A small towel was wrapped round Ihe body, and the end o! it was stuffed into the baby's mouth. A post-mortem examination was made 10-dav.