CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 131, 19 June 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

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(By Telegraph—

America's Huge Debt The United States national debt at June 15 was appr'oximately 36,634,000,OOO dollars, which is the highest in the United States history.— New York. Deserted Vlllage A teleph.one. operator is the only person who reniains in the village of Lourtier, in Valdebagnes. Four hundred peasants fied in oonsequence of an avalanche of mnd and rocks which wiped out 65 houses. Lourtier was completely rqzed by fire during tbe Great War^ Geneva. Increases in Wages Changes in the rates of wages reported to the Ministry of Labouf for the first five -months of the year are estimated to have resulted in a net jncrease of about £367,000 weekly in the full-time rates of over 2,900,000 workers, ooinpared with au increase of £487,050 weeidy in tho whole . of last year.— Offieial Wireless. British Trade Credit Export guarantees to the exfent of £50,000,000 are proposed in. a Government Bill to amend overseas trade Acts. It .proyides that for the purpose of establishing ^or encouraging trade between Britain and any other country, the Board of Trade may make arrangeinents for the giving of pjarantees to the amount named in connection with the Export tp any country; of goods other than munitions of war. — Offieial Wireless. 0 .■ Cabinet Somersault Speaking on the Addrpss-in-Reply in the House of Representatives to-day, the new Labour member for Gwydir, Mr W. J. Seully , severely critieised the Government for its "somersault" in regard to the exclusion and .then the admission of Mrs Freer to Australia. He asked whether, in all the eiroumstances, the Gflyernmeht intended to eompensate her for the blunder of Mr Paterson, Minister of the Interior. There was no reply to Mr Seully's question.— Canberra.