WORLD HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18255, 17 February 1931, Page 3

WORLD HAPPENINGS.

BANKED HIS DOLE. MAN WITH £2BO QAINS RELIEF. A man's deception in obtaining relief when he had £260 in the bank was disclosed at Southampton recently, when Newton Bartlett, aged 66, was summoned for making a false statement to obtain Poor Law relief on July 18. Mr -F. B. Graver, a relieving officer, said that Bartlett signed a statement that he was destitute and without any means. Outdoor relief was granted to him up to December 5, but when he was admitted to hospital it was found that he had £4 19s in his possession and a bank book showing £260 to his credit. The worst feature of the case was that on October 15, while he was receiving relief, he put £3O in the bank. . Bartlett pleaded that he was almost disabled. As he had nothing but his savings as a gardener, he thought he would ask for a little relief to help him along. He was fined £5.

CRICKET BALL STRIKE. MAKERS RESIST WAGE CUT. The negotiations for a settlement of the strike of cricket-ball makers in Tonbridge (Kent) and district) have failed, and 200 employees are idle, says a London paper. The strike followed a refusal of the men to accept a 10 per cent reduction in wages-, which the employers assert is a fair demand in view of slackness of trade. Nearly the whole of the British Empire is supplied with cricket balls from the Tonbridge district. The Arms principally affected by the strike are Messrs John Wisden, of Tonbridge, and Messrs Duke, of Penhurst, which have exported in the past large consignments of cricket balls to the Dominions. The introduction of a tariff on cricket balls by the Australian Government has had the effect of reducing this country’s export by 50 per cent., and it Is stated that the industry is also suffering from severe competition from India. DOG DOPING CHARGE. OWNERS WARNED OFF. Eight employees of the Belle Yue greyhound track at Manchester have been dismissed and three dog-owners ‘‘warned off” as the result of an inquiry by Colonel Cameron, the general business manager, and Mr Eddie Owen, the racing manager, into allegations of “doping.” , . , They came to the conclusion that while no actual trainers were implicated certain of the kennel boys had been persuaded to give mixtures to dogs to increase or diminish their speed. The stewards of the National Greyhound Club decided to cancel the licenses of these employees and warn off certain persons as being concerned in what they regarded as an offence against the sport. The owners warned off are: Mr Myer Burger, otherwise Burton, Mr Carl Meyer, and Mr J. Lowe, all of Gorton, Manchester. The warning off applies also to any greyhounds they possess or may have an interest in. Dogs affected are: Diamond Peril, French Fly, and Little Chum.

FIRE HOAXER. PLAN TO CATCH lIIM. Officials of the London Fire 'Brigade discussed plans to outwit the hoaxer who sent 19 bogus calls by telephone in two hours of one day, causing 70 appliances and 300 men to make fruitless journeys. From tests made the brigade officials agree that it would be quite possible for one man sitting before an automatic dialling telephone to complete the calls in the time taken. PASTOR’S SUICIDE. DEPRESSED BY MONEY TROUBLES, References to money troubles were made at the inquest at Battersea on the Rev. Cynon Jones, aged 48, minister of Lewin Road Baptist Church, Streatham, who was found dead in his study, which was filled with gas, at his house in Streatham. Mrs Gertrude Jones, the widow, [ said that her husband was subject to fils of dizziness, digestive trouble, and insomnia. Two months ago he was knocked down by a motor car, and this ! affected him. He was depressed. There was money trouble, but nothing to cause his death. Dr. Edwin Smith, the coroner, recorded a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. A MIDNIGHT PARTY. BEER AND SAUSAGE ROLLS. Prince George attended the midnight performance, in aid of St. Luke’s Day Nursery, of Mr Seymour Hicks’ film, “The Love Habit” at the Plaza Theatre, London, on January 8. lie afterwards presided at a sausage roll and beer party, in which every member of the audience was invited to take part. This was the first English midnight cinema performance open to the public. “ALL QUIET” BANNED. AFTER GERMAN CABINET SAW IT. An order forbidding the performance in Germany of the Him of Remarque’s book, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was issued recently. The 'National-Socialists have conducted a campaign against the film and have nightly assembled in thousands outside the cinema at which it had been given to protest against it as auli-Gcrman. Tin's morning most, of the members of the Cabinet saw the film at a special performance in Ibe Ministry of the Interior. Afterwards the experts of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Hie Interior, and the Foreign Office declared that they regarded the film as damaging to the reputation of Germany and as a danger to public order.

Representatives of Saxony, Wurttemberg, Brunswick, and Thuringia gave a verdict against the film.

“LIFT UP THE TAIL.” PILOT DIRECTS HIS RESCUERS. Three men who rushed shouting to an overturned aeroplane in a field at Blelcliingley, near Redhill, Surrey, were surprised to hear a muffled voice. ‘How can we get you out?” asked Mr W. 11. Tobitt, on whose farm the machine landed. “Lift up the. tail!” said the muffled voice. Mr Tobitt. his son, and a farm labourer lifted the tail of the machine and held in in the air while Lieut. H. M. A. Day, attached to the Royal

Air Force aerodrome at Kenley, wriggled out unhurt. He explained that when flying at i O,OOO feet in a snowstorm the engine of the machine began to give out, apparently through the intense cold, and he was forced to land. Friends of the pilot joked with him afterwards, telling him the accident was the result of sitting down 13 to table at the aerodrome on the previous day.