NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 4

NEWS BREVITIES

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Gift to Y.W.C.A. Lord Nuffield bas promised te give £50,000 towards tbe £70,000^ required fqr tbe Young Women'* Christian Aa* sociation'* Central Club in Lonfion.— Offieial Wireless. Hyde Park Chanfet One of tbe cbaracteristie gates te Hyde Park, with its lodge, is te b* demolisbed as part of an. improvement to a street wbicb hs designed to reduce txaffio eongestion. A roundabout it tQ be eonstructed at Vietoria Gate.— Offieial Wireless. Railway Spetd-Up Tbe Englisb railway service will lis grpatly augmented for the summer to cope witb the number of foreign visitors and meet. the dem&nd* arising from the progressive revivel of industrial activity for fast trains connecting tbe business centres.-^Offiqiai Wireless. Chelsea Flower Show Tbeir Majesties, tbe King aud Queen, closely examined tbe New Zealand and Australian contributions to the Emplre exbibit at tbe Chelsea Flower Show. The Queen pointed out a number ot plants, specimens of wbicb ehe - had collected on ber New Zealand and Australian tour, and wbicb were now growiug in ber own garden. — London. Excheqoer Returns The Britisb Excbequer returns show that the total of ordinary revenut amount® to £90,511,039, compared witb £84,904,826 at tbe corresponding date last year. The total ordinary expenditure is £109,260,964, compared witb £110,862,844 at tbe corresponding date in 1936.— Offieial Wireless, ~ Less Homework A Britisb Board of Education reppyt recommends no home work for children under 12 years, and adds, "It should not exceed an hour a night between the ages of 12 and 14, and should not exceed 90 minutes thereafter. It should be judiciously reguJated, Homcwprk if a powerful instrument for tbe training of tbe intelligence." — London. Search for Smithy Clyde Elliott, .the ciaema producer, announces that he is sailing soon for China on the first stage of .a journey to tfie wilds of Malay in hearqh pf Sir Charies Kingaford-Smith, It i| belipved he is parfly motivated by the fact tbat Smithy 's widow, wbo visited Hollywood recently, expressed her belief tbat thq fiiey was atill aljve,-^-Ho]ly-wqod. Export of Hclium A cpmmfttee pf fivq memhers of tbe United States Cabinef bav§ reeoinmended to President Roosevelt the liberalisation pf belium legislation to permit export qf gas for pther than puUtary purposes, Dr. HugQ Rckener has arrived to give evifience before the Senate Cqmmittee on Wednesday. Germany wanted helium for militq.ry use, he said. Dr. Eckener was the nnwiRing tppi of German militarists. — "Washington.