NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 4

NEWS BREVITIES

Mr. Nask Broadcasts The Hon. W. Nash, New Zealand Minister of Finance, broadcasts from Moscow at midnight to-night, local timOj on shortwave. — LONDONFiim Divorce Joan Bennetts the actress, has anUounCed her intention of divorcing Gene Markey on the grounds Of incompatibUity.— HQLLYWOOD. Munieipal Ltpns During the first quarter of 1937, the Minister of Health sanctioned the borrowing hy local authorities of £25,820,796 for capital expenditure on munieipal services, of which £14,457,600 was for housing. — OFFIOIAL WIRELESS. Springbok Tottr Strong objection to the third Tdst match between the All Blacks and the Springiboks being played at the show ground instead of Eden Park has been made by the Eden Park Boatd of Control and Board of Trustees in a telegram forwarded to the New Zealand Rugby Union. A reply received from the chairman of the management committee, Mr & S. Dean, states that the protest will be considered at a meeting of the management committee on Wednesday night. — ^AUCKLAND. Yacation for Judge The Acting-Minister of Labour, Hon. »P. O. Webb, announced to-day that His Honour Mr Justiee Page, President of the Arbitration Court; has been granted six months' leave of absence, due to ill health, Arrangements are being made for a temporary appointrnent to the Court — CHRISTCHURCH. Visiting N.Z. Passengers on the Awatea, which l©ft Sydney last night for Wellington, include Mr R-- H. Nesbit, former Australian Commissioner in New Zealand, and Dr. T. Z- Koo, a Chinese cleric. who has been touring Australia.— SYDNEY, Monterey's Mad The Monterey, 'which left Sydney for Auckland afi 12.4 p.m. to-day, carries 209 bags of mails for New Zealand, including the London air mail, despatched on April 14 and 17.— WELLINGTON. Moscow's Canal The first ship travereed the MoscowVolga canal, which took four years to cut. It links the Baltic, White, Caspian, Black and Azov seas. The canal also quadruples Moscow's water supply. The completion of the canal brings to vivtual fruition a scheme to link far-fiung parts of Russia by a system of enomi'ous watorways. — -MOSCOW.