MISCELLANEOUS CABLES'

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES'

Pr«» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright The Ballybay Bachelors’ Club in London is appealing to all the men in the locality who are eligible to join the club, pointing out that owing to women’s increasing power in the government of the country a bachelors’ tax is inevitable unless it is strongly resisted. Swedish seamen have accented 20 per cent, reduction in their wage\ The New South Wales State Cabinet has decided to issue an invitation to luncheon to Lord Northcliffe. Mr Vcrbnigghen has announced that the New South Wales orchestra’s future is assured. He also stated that Dame Nellie Melba had subscribed £IOO to the fund.

The military funeral of Matron Creal, of the Sydney Hospital, was one of the most impressive ever witnessed in Sydney. She performed war work in Egypt, and she was one of those who had the Royal Red Cross distinction conferred on her by the King; Harland and Wolff have begun the construction of a 30,000-ton steamer for the Holland-America Line for the New York service. She will be the biggest ship to be constructed since 1914. She will be named the Statendam.

Arrangements have been made to erect a memorial at Villcrs-Brctonneaux which will cost the commonwealth £IOO,OOO. Ten acres have already been purchased for the purpose. It is now reported that the site is entirely unsuitable and is inaccessible, being off the high road and invisible to ordinary passers-by. Mr Hughes proposes to inspect the site himself. Meanwhile all development work is delayed. Admiral Arthur Wilson ieft estate valued at £26,876.