CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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"B.-P." to Visit N.Z.? It is announced that the Chief Scout and Lady Baden-Powell hope to* ac* cept the invitation to be present s.t the Australian Jamboree in 1938 and, afterwards to visit New Zealand, pro* ceeding thence to. the Jamboree at Ja*i maica in 1939. Burned to Death Two officers of the Royal Australian Air Force, Flying-Officer Kenneth Wai" ter McKenzie and Sergeant Norman Torrens Witherow, were burned to death when a machine they were flying crashed from 200 feet to the aerodrome at Hamilton, reports a Melbourne cable, Ranger Again The yachts Ranger, Endeavour II., " Rainbow, Yankee and Endeavour I., finished in that order in the second of the series of five races, reports n Marblehead (Mass.) message. * * Noise and Nerves "An organist reseinbles a 100101161,'* declared Dr. Harvey Grace, presiding at a congress at Plymouth. of the In*« corporated Association of Organists, Each controlled a machine of tremem. dous power which, if recklessly used, was capable of becoming an engine of destruction. He feared that the modern craze for noise would affeet the nerves of the younger generation and, soonef or later, aural sensitiveness, on which the musician's work depended, would suffer. The ears and nerves of the young were exposed to non-stop loud-. speakers, home excitement, and thej noise of the streets and cinemas, Power Extensions The Central Electricity Boar'd ha# approved' of extensions to the Battersea power station which are estimated to double the existing .building. The extensions will cost about £1,500,000, A new plant with a generative capacity of 100,000 k.w. is to be installed, thei intention being to raise the capacity of the station to 500,000 k.w. — British Of* ficial Wireless, Machinery and Man Motor-cars are mastering man, accord* ing to Professor Millias Culpin, of the London School of Tropical Medicine, in an article in The Practitioner. He adds that accidents are due to. the failure of human nature to cope with the progresa of the machine it has created. The advance of motor-cars has Been .more rapid than human adjustment to the new demands. _ ••;■:».* Tour Cancelled The Bishop of Bradford has caucel* led his locture tour, states a Quebec message. He is sailing on the Duchess of York on Friday. Dr. Blunt, Bishop of Bradford, is the clerie whose speeeh about King Edward Vill. first brought; prominently before the people the^ position which ended in the King ab"&icatino and later, as Duke of Windsor, maTrying Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). , '. Railways Nationalised President Lebrun has signed a decroa approving the reorganisation cf French private railways into a national company , virtually State controlled, the shareholders retaining 49 per cent. of the shares. Government Resigns Foliowing the defeat of the Legislative Council Reform Bill by the Council on Tuesday night, the Premier of Victoria asked the Governor yesterday, for a dissolution of Parliament. .Tho election will probably be field ia a mo'nth. Sydney Wool Saies . At the Sydney wool says yesterday prices were again firm at Tuesday 's rates, exeept for inferior fieece aud very faulty skirtings, which were 5 per cent. below the opening rates. Grcasv Merino realised 23fd. The number of bales offered was 13,019, of which 12,919 were sold. Actress Marries Miss Tallulah Bankhead aud Mr John Emory, of New York, the actor, were rnarried at a quiet civ.il ceremony at Jasper, Alabama. Poles Persecuted The Warsaw correspondeut of tho Manchester Guardian says that the Governmeut, for the second time, ig strongly protesting to the Danzig Senate against intensified persecution of Poles in Danzig, where Nazis are arresting children in the trains and chasing tliem in country lanes in order to compel their attendance at German schools, and breaking into homes and threatening parents with revolvers.