CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

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Motor-Cycle Record The Italfan, P. Taruffi, crcated e world record for a motor-cycle over e mile from a flying start, at Milan. He averaged 169.41 miles an hour, Actress Collapses The actrese Simone Simon eollapsed on the set when the temperature was 101 degrees. She is saffering from a severe cold and is expseted to be in bed for a week. Teachers Demonstrate Five thousand Glasgow schooi teachers held 16 demonstrations as a protest ngainsl Ihe refusal of the corporation tp restoro the salary cuts, involving £250,000 a year. The corporation hai ' referrad the matter to a committee, Carnera Bankrupt Primo Carnera, former holder of tho world '» heavy weight boxing championsMp, has filed & petition in bankruptcjr following an income-tax c|a|m of £124 which he says he did not know he owed, He tkpught all that was due iiaa been paid. Salisbury Camp The' . Larkhill eamp at Salisbjay ie being compietely rebuilt. Huw ane being replaced with brxck structures of modern design, sehools and other' establisbments are being extended, and accommodaaion is being provided for new units. Savage Attack e Pros dent of the ^ueenslana Trades and Labonr Conncjl, Mr S. J, Bryun, was savagely .attacked yesterday' by a group .of nxen while entering the Trades Hall. Mr Bryan,' who handled the reeent bxewery strjke, 'was' felied and |cieked almost .intp insensibility. He is nowin hospitai. '. Better Baots The British War Office has Aecreed that the British Army must have better boots. A contract has been let for 60,000 pairs, which, the Daily Mail is informed, are "like those that country gentlemen wear." Molor Speed |Record Rain compelled Captain 'Ejston ti ahandon his attempt on the 24-hour reqord after he had covered 2440 miles at an average speed of 156.1 miles an hour. While doing this run, he established a new record for 2000 kilometros averaging 163.59 miles an h'our. £100,000 Contract The London Transport Board has signed a contract of £100,000 for the" construction of an improved tube junction at Baker street, in connection with the scheme for linking the Bakerloa line with the Metropolitan track runnjng into the North-west suburbs.— British Official Wireless, Clydeside Industries In the couTse of his visit to Ghw gow to study the employment situation on the Clydeside, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Brown, referred to the necessity for establishing light industries in the industrial belt of Scotland, since the preponderance of heavy industries on the Clyde laid the Glasgow distriet open to extremes of .revivjal and depression. — British Official Wireless. Jewish Students Strike Eight thousand Jewish university students, of whom half are gitls, are on strike in Poland ass a protest against the "bench ghetto '{ system, under which Jewish students are eegregated in their class-rooms. Six hundred girls have locked themselves in a Jewish academic home, refusing to leave until the system is .abolished. Others tkreaten a hunger strike. Paralysis Epidemic •Picture-theatr.g pr.opyietors. who intended reeuming " matipees in the guburbs of Melbourne, where the gchools have reppened^ have been served \witlx notice from tlie Paralysis Consuitative Council not to re-open. Tho Cinematograpk Exhibitors > Association annonnced to-day thaf it intended to seek eompensatiou from. the Government owing to the heavy loss suffered through the epidemic. The total number of casee is now 536. Costly Delay Lord Essendon, at the P. and 0. Centenary dinner, deplored the delay in strengthening ihe New Zealand-Austra-lian-Canadiau shipping service against "synthetic" competition, He ss.id he realised the Dominion Governmentf had to be consulted, but it was a thensMd pities that aetion had not been talMB two years ago. Not only wohJd Al ships have been running, b,ut they would ha-ve been buiit at b^lf th« jBieseat cosL-