NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 115, 1 June 1937, Page 6

NEWS BREVITIES

Pope's Birthday With the special permdssion of his medieal advisers the Pope, who is 80 yeara of age to-day, celehrated Mass ia a flower-filled chapel.— Rome. Stranded Scientists After having struggled through sand ridges for a week the ground party with supplies of petrol and food reached Sir Herbert Gepp and" other members of the geographical survey party,, who were stranded when their plane was f orced down. A rxxnway will be cleared to enable the plane to take off. — Melbourne. Child's Fatal Daih Matthew Gough, aged eight years, a son . of Mr and Mrs Matthew Gough, 105 Nelson street, Petone, was kilied when he was knocked down on thc Hutt road this afternoon by a car owned and driven by Mrs Emily Ndna Wilkinson,' aged 20, of Overton Terrace, Wellington. Eunning out on to the road, the boy was struck by the car and received severe internal injurie3 from which he died ^lmost immediately. — Wellington. Unofficial Cricket The sports editor of the Daily S^etelx, Alr L. V. Maixning, predjcts that an imperial cricket confdrence will be held in the middle of June. He refers to the evil of unofficial cricket tours, which do not give tbe English players a chance ta rest. He also mentions that as a result of the recent tour of Ceylbn by Sir Jixlian Calxn, two players born in Leieester will have to stand aside in 1939 in favotrr of the Australians Mndge and Walsh. The time has come to make a repetition of this inxposeible. Thc home supply ia not so thin that we need recrniting expeditions overseas," .he says. — Londoa* ^