Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 9

Cable Jottings

CHAMPION ORATOR. Roch Pinard, aged 18, at Washington, won for Canada the world’s high school oratory championship. He defeated speakers from eight other nations. BRIAND DEC LINES.—M. Daladier, Leader of the French Radical Socialists, is engaged in forming a Cabinet. It is reported that M. Briand has refused an invitation to retain the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. FILM STUDIO FIRE.—The second fire at a tilrn studio within a week oc- < urred at Teddington on Saturday, when a wing, valued at £IO,OOO, which had been prepared for the production of a new British picture, was destroyed. UMBERTO FOR ROME. —Military searchlights followed the progress of the Royal party to the Brussels railway station when the Crown Prince Umberto of Italy left for Rome. Extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent incidents. FRIENDS OF RUSSIA.” —A British delegation of 36 “Friends of Soviet Russia” is going to Russia, to take part in the celebration of the anniversary of the revolution on November 7. They include a London bus conductor, a Yorkshire textile worker and several miners and engineers. TEXTILE CRISIS. —The National Association of Textile Trades Unions. ; U a meeting at Bradford, authorised the executive committee. In the event "f an effort to reduce wages, to withdraw the workers from the individual firms affected, or to call a general strike in the wool textile industry. NEW WAR ON CANCER. The British Medical Journal states that the British Medical Association has Parted a new war on cancer, and has invited every practitioner in the United Kingdom to keep a special watch on all cases of cancer, and to submit exhaustive reports, including the full history of the patient. The information will be collated and sifted, n the hope that new light will be thrown on the scourge. NEW ZEALAND FRUIT WINS.— The four Australian Agents-General attended a luncheon at the opening of the Imperial Fruit Show at Birmingham, but no Australian State competed ‘ii the fruit classes. The New Zealand fruit Board apples took all the prizes or the Southern Hemisphere. In the ' °ld storage classes, for fruit held in stores in England since June, the D °ugherty variety was first, Statesman second and Tasma third. XKW THAMES BRIDGES.. —Mr. Frederick Palmer, a consulting engiP eer ' has been engaged to supervise he rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge, at 1 fee of about £30.000. The Improvements Committee of the London County ouncil recommends that Mr. Palmer a also commissioned to supervise the construction of the new Charing Cross dridgp, at an estimated cost of ‘-ISO.OOO. The combined cost of the l f'° bridges will be £13.500.000, and he work will take seven years to complete.