BRITISH AFFAIRS

Southland Times, Issue 18929, 1 May 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AFFAIRS

BROADCASTING PLAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, April 29. Entertainment promoters have openly avowed their opposition to wireless broadcasting of plays, music, and songs as prejudicial to places of entertainment. A resolution to that effect was passed by a committee representing places of amusement, owners of copyright, concert promoters, and artists. WAR MEMORIAL LONDON, April 29. The Marquis of Ailsa unveiled a memorial to officers and men of the Royal Flying Corps, also Australian and American airmen killed while serving at the aerial gunnery school in Turnberry, Ayshire. The memorial s twenty-two feet high and built on a rocky mound overlooking the Firth of Clyde. BRITISH HOSPITALS. LONDON, April 29. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Manchester in support of the effort to liquidate the debt on the Royal Hospital, said if the voluntary hospital system broke down the cost oi hospitals would be increased threefold. Eminent doctors would not give their services without fee and tlje country would lose what money would not buy—human sympathy.