CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

i— Presi Assa.-

(By Telegrapl

-Copyright.)

New Cruiser Completed The new 9000-ton cruiser Sheffield, built by. Yickers-Armstrong at Newcastle and launched by the Duchess of Kent over a year ago, has left tbe Tynfe for acceptance trials and will proceed later to Ckatkam, British Official Wireless. . Trade Improves • v ^ ' The value of xetail trade in Brltain in July was 8.1 per cent greater tbari a year earlier. Tbe value of stocks was 5 per cent higher and employment 3 per cent greater. "Easy Sailifi^' A Catskill message states tlrat the Iegiess swimmer, Zimmy, has ndw covered a third of the distance, in his nonstop rivfer swim ffOin Albany tb New York. HO said : "I have got my second wind now and the rest is easy sailing." Anti-Epidemic Bill The Act passed by the NeW South Wales Parliament and desigried to prevent the spr ead Of infantile paralysis from Vietoria to New South WaleS became law on Wednesday nigbt, Obildren under sixteen years of age will not be able to obtain steamer or railway or air-line tiekets for tfavel to New South Wales unless they pfodUCe certilicates to tbe effOct tbat tbey.bave bad no contact Witb infOcted persons xn Vietoria* Nazi Rally Tbe Bfitish Ambabsauor to Berlin, Sir Neville Henderson, has accepted Herr Hi'tler's invitation to attexid tne Nation al SocialiStic Party Raily at Nnremberg, from Septembcr 6 to 13. b"ir Neville will",' leave ? Befliri ih cuinpany with the French. Ambassador and other members of the JDiplomatic Corps on Septe.m ber 9, arriving at Nuremb'erg on the following day. 'Ihe proceedings that day *will iiiclude a reception by "Herr" Hitler of the Diplomatie Corps, fdllowmg which the Ambassador. will attend certain fUnctiOns in conriection witb tbo ralJy— British OfBcjal Wireless. Race Broaddasts By a majorily of tlirce to two tbe Higb Cotirt at Sydney upbold tbe decision of Mr Justice NlChoJson in refusing to grant an- injunction against the broadcast of race descriptions from the Vietoria Park raeeeonr.se. The Cbief Justice, Sir Jobn Latham, eonsidered tliere bad been no nuisanee and no breach of copyrigbt, He said tbe law conld not by an injunction, in ellect, ereet fences wbicb tbe club was not . prepared to provide.,