THE WEEK

North Canterbury Gazette, Volume I, Issue 1, 12 August 1932, Page 7

THE WEEK

Saturday, August 6. Canada offered Britain a two-ways exchange of trade, including a 5/- per hundredweight preference on fruit. ,/ The King gained liis second victory at Cowes with the Britannia. The doctors reported an improvement in Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. War broke out between Bolivia and Paraguay. The weavers of Lancashire rejected a proposal for a General Strike. Mr. De Valera asked the Dail for an emergency fund of £2,000,000 to carry on the struggle with Britain. Mr. Lloyd George warned 20,000 Welshmen that the World is preparing for a blacker calamity than the Great War. M. Alfred Maurer, painter, was found dead in his room at New York. Monday, August 8. Mr. Coates Avas one of the speakers at the opening of the Welland Canal. The Irish Dail passed an Emergency Estimates Bill giving Mr. Do Valera funds to> carry on the struggle Avith Britain. The King Avon his third victory at Cowes. An attempt AA 7 as made on the life of Sir Alfred Watson, Editor of the Calcutta “ Statesman.” The Prime Minister of SAveden resigned. The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce began an attempt on the endurance flight record, but was forced doAvn into the Thames. Lord Irwin expressed the vieAV in an address in London that the economic storm Avas “blowing itself out.” America’s “bonus ” army of Avar veterans as-ked the Mexican President to accept its members as colonists. Political disorders broke out again in Germany. LoA r elock, Elliot, and Savidan Avere selected at Los Angeles to represent the Empire against America. Tuesday, August 9. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald paid a surprise visit to Ireland. The civil war in Brazil hays become the biggest Avar in South American history. Sir John Simon as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made ail earnest appeal to Ireland to end the Treaty dispute. A bomb Avrecked tAventy-five houses in Brunswick, Germany, occupied by Communists. The Marshal commanding the Chinese forces in Manchuria left for Nanking to hand in his resignation. The Argentinian, Zabala, won the Marathon Race at Los Angeles. Wednesday, August 10 The Free State Minister of Agriculture, avlio has represented Ireland at Ottawa, left suddenly for Dublin. Experiments a\ ere made in the transmission of sermons from St. Paul’s Cathedral by loud speakers placed under the choir galleries. Mr. H. G. Wells made a further attack on the British Labour Party. The King aa 7 or four first and tAvo second prizes in six starts Avith the Britannia at Cowes. The manager of the Brisbane branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia Avas found shot- in his office. Miss Coppjestone abandoned an attempt to SAvim the Channel after spending five hours in the Avater. . Sir Hubert Wilkins called on Mr. Bruce at OttaAva and outlined the plan for an Antarctic Expedition in 1933. Floods in Manchuria droAvned thousands of people and destroyed millions of yens worth of property. Thursday, August 11. The King and Queen left London for Sandringham. President Hindenburg signed an emergency decree authorising the deafh penalty for treason, arson, mischief, or resistance to the State authorities. The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce renewed her attempt on the endurance flight record. Ireland recalled her delegates from OttaAva. , Professor Raymond Firth, a NeAV Zealander at- present in Sydney, has joined the anthropological staff of the University of London. A monarchist revolt broke out in Madrid. The Food Investigation Board has satisfied itself by experiment that frozen pork from New Zealand can be shipped to London and used successfully for either pork or bacon. Friday, August 12. NeAV Zealand has been beaten in the rowing events at Los Angeles. The Monetary Sub-Committee at Ottawa has reported in favour oi a metallic base to currency, but lias refrained from proposing machinery lor the stabilising of exchange. . . The Spanish rebellion has been suppressed m tne Capital, nut unrest continues in the Provinces. . Communications between Brazil and the outside Avorld have been interrupted. , . , ~ The National Socialists of Germany are theatemng to march on Merlin.