Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 11

Cable Jottings

LIQUOR IN BRITAIN. —The Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. Clynes, announced in the House of Commons that a Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into the system of liquor licensing in England, Wales and Scotland.— A.P.A.-U.S. SINGAPORE BASE.-—The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, has sent a cablegram to the Prime Minister of Britain. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, containing a protest by the Commonwealth Government against the threatened discontinuance of work °n the Singapore naval base. TROPHY FOR HINKLER. —Mr. Bert Hinkler has been awarded the Britannia Trophy, which is permanently housed at the Royal Aero Club, for the best British flight in 1928. A. and N.Z.-P.A. .SWINDLES IN PARIS. —Alleged hanking swindles, recalling the “Gazette du Franc" case, led to the arrest ft Paris of a woman banker, Lucie de Goribar, the founder and director of •-’lnstitute Union Francaise, which specialised in dear loans to the Bohemians of Montmartre, who have been defrauded of £25,000. —A. and N.Z.P.A. EXPORT CREDITS ACT. —The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. W. Graham, stated in the House of Comthat as part of its employment Policy the Cabinet had decided that the Advisory Committee under the ExPort Credits Act should be at liberty *uter August 1 to consider applications regarding Russia.—A.P.A.-IT.S.