NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 128, 16 June 1937, Page 4

NEWS BREVITIES

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Women's Tennis Team The British women 's tennis team will arri.ve dn New Zealand on October 29 and will leave on November 8 for Australia. — London. . War Debjt Defaulters The State Department announeed the receipt of 163,000 dollars from Finland in war debt payments. Other European debtorS, including Britain-,. are not 'x)ay* ing. — Washington. • Boat's Fatal Capsize A message from Lewes states that the 35-foot fishing eruiser Teal, oa which some college teachers were sponding tbeir holidays, overtrirned in . Dolaware Bay. Three people were rescned and seven bodies have been recovored. — New York. Busmen's Award Mounted and foot police guarded Transport House when the executive of the Transport Workera' Union aecepted a new agreement iin reference to London busmen's pay and conditions. The agreement applies a 48-hour week. The recent abortive strike was for a. i 7-J-hour day. — London. 3 . Towed by Captive It is revealed that tlie patrol ship Larrqkia is practically disabled and is 1 being towed to Darwin by one of the : Japanese vessels she had seized for ! alleged pearl poaching. Of the captur- ' ed vessels, the motlier ship's cargo is | said to be worth £22,000, and that of another vesse] is valued at £1000.— ■ Darwin. ; Tax on Amusements By charging an extra fd on every ; xtheatre ticket, funds will be raised in [ Germany to provide aged actors and t actresses with a home and a pension, . according to Dr. P. Goebbels, Minister , of Propaganda, speaking at the Dusseldorf Theatrical Festival. Similar provij sion will be made -for poets, musicians r and sculptors. — Berlin. Irish Constitution 3 After' passing the final readmg of the new draft of the Irish Free State Constitution by 62 votes to 48, the * Dail dissolved. A referendum on the ' draft of the constitution is to be held 1 on July 1, concurrently with the gen3 oral elcction, iu which the voting js } on tho proportional representation sys3 tem. — Dubliu. 3 r Americ&n Strikes i , Mr John L. Lewis, the chairman of j the Committee of Industrial Organisation, has ordered 9500 miners in 17 mdnes -in Pennsylvania and West Virgmia to strike, thus stoppiug the sup- [ ply of oue to the strike-bound steel plants. He called Mr T. M. Girdler, , president of the Republic Steel Cor- * poration, a heavily-armed monomanias | with murderous tendencies who should be arrested and said the Government should disarin him. — Washington.