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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 4

Control of Australian Boxers.—The State Cabinet is preparing legislation to set up a Commission to control boxing m New South Wales. The chief proposals are to licence all stadiums and to make it necessary for boxers to submit to a detailed medical examination before obtaining a certificate. Periodical medical examinations will be necessary before certificates are renewed.— Sydney, June 6. _N.Z. Baritone’s Success— The young New Zealand bantone, Gerard Peters, of Cambridge, is proving particularly successful in one of the leading parts °! Littlers Broadway hit, “Song of Norway,” now being played to packed .houses in London. He won the South Auckland vocal championship at the Cambridge Competitions Festival in 1932. He left the Dominion two years before the war.—London, June 5.

British Amphibian Aircraft.—The production of a British flying-boat capable of alighting on sea or land with equal facility has been announced by Short Brothers, Ltd., makers of the Empire and Sunderland fly-ing-boats. Known as the Sealahd, the aircraft has an undercarriage for alighting on land, which retracts into the side of the hull. The prototype is being built and is expected to fty by next April. It will carry five passengers and 10091 b of baggage, and will have a range of 600 miles for feeder services—London, June 6

Power Failure in Sydney.— Twenty Sydney suburbs were without light at periods early on Wednesday night because the Bunnerong power plant could not carry the heavy loading imposed when thousands of heating and lighting appliances were switched on. Hospital patients were tended by candle light, and an operation was performed by the light of a battery set.— Sydney, June 6.