CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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(By Telegraph.-

Record Merino Prices The average * pirice paid ' f or s Merino stud; stock 'at tliis year's ''auction 'sales was a record for the, past' eigh'teen years. During the seriea ' just completed 1562 Merino stud raffis * and etves realised £59,500, the average prico being £37 17/6.- — Sydney. , Jewel Smuggling ■ A Federal Grand Jury . indicted; 55 persohs," including; 13- women, allegediy tlie lafges't and mbht elaborate dianiond ring that ever opetated in the United" States, with havihg brbught . in. 13,000,000 dbllars worth of geins illicitly dhring the.-past.seven. years. Mathy - o'f the persons indicted are Tesidehts ' of . Antwerp, which is ostensibly'the ebntni , of the . activi'ties.— New York. . 600 WprkHrt Walk Qut I A message from Warren-says. that The Committee for Industrial Organisation has called a-labour holiday. as a»protest against -an injunetion. -Six thousand men and women have walked out of'17 • plants. A political twist is given to. the • rituation when . Go vernor Earle^ ivho has been- freqnently mentioned as a democratic nominee for the Presidency,withdrew his "name from considerdtiau for nominationrin a statement to-day- in which he advocated a third term--fqr President Roosevelt.— New York., i-. - "• • - v . . - * , ■ • .t Citrus Fruit., Embargo r ; . The New Zealand embargo on ■ citru-j fruits was v tho subject of a vigoro jd debate at the annual conference of .tlie Fruitgrowers '• Fedetation at • Sydney yesterday. The "conference expressecTap* preciation of Ihe work • done in -New Zealand : by their president, Mr Heane. ahd secretary, Mr Herrodpand decided' to'bring pressure to bedr on politicians to permit a proportion of New Zealand potatoes to enter Australia. The -conference is convinced that once New Zealand potatoes are allowed into -Australia; the embargo qn Australiah' citrus fruits would di'sappeaT.y— Sydney. -