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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 6

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Imperial Airways •'« Imperial Airways' profit for the yeai was £164,735. A dtvidend of 7 pe cent. has been declared Forestry Study The Edinburgh University has re* ceived a legacy of £10,000 for the pro* motion of the study of forestry Countess of Covadogna Although the Count of Covadonga isi still ill at Miami, U.S.A., his wife is petitioning for a divorce on the grounds of incompatibility. British Recruiting London 's intalce of recruits for th# Regular Army last week doubled the returns for the corresponding week last year. — British Official Wireless. Scottish. Associations The Prime Minister of Britain, M# Neville Chamberlain, will address « demonstration of the Scottish Unionist Association at Edinburgh on November 12. Sydney Wool Saies At the Sydney wool saies yesterday, 11,486 bales were offered and. 8920 sold* also 487 privately. Competition came mostly from France and Germany, Greasy merino made 25|d, the highesf pnco this season. Plane Records Sought The Times says that the British Ai# Ministry is considering attempts -o# world speed records for land plane# using a Viekers Supormarine Spitfir# fighter, and on the long-distance record with a Viekers Wellesley. Chain-Store Expansion Seli'ridges (Australasia) Ltd. is call* ing for more capital to finance the ex* pansion of its business to New Zealand and Westefn Australia. The director# are off ering 95,000 £l shares at a pr#« mium of 5/- in the proportion of on# for every two held on November 10. Investigation of Charges The . United States becretary for Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, stated that the Immigration Bur-eau would in* vestigate the case of the Australian, Mr Harry Bridges, as to whether hd was legally a' citizen 'of the United Stateg . or was ■ deportable. Chargei have been filed that Mr Bridges illegai* ly entered the United States. • Fascist Annivcrsary The 16th anniversary of, tbe-birth of Fascisms is being celebrated in Italy this week. There will be gatheringa aR over the country. A' German .delegation headed by Herr Hitler's per* sonal respresentative, Herr Rudoli Hess, will take part in the celebratioa# The programme includes a r.eview of foreign aifairs on Cctober 29 by II Ducc. George V. Memorial King George V.'s statue is being erected on a site specially cleared nea* Westminster Abbey. It will be of bronze and ten feet high, depicting th# King in naval uniform and wearing th# Garter rubes. ' The memorial fnnd has reached £590,000, of which £391,000 ha# been allotted to playing-fieids through* out Britain. A total of 1600 are undet consideration. Roosevelt Attacked Mr H. Hoover, former President of the United States, in an address string* ently attacking .the New Deal and Prasident Roosevelt, declared that he wa# not himself a candidate for any publi# office. He warncd thq nation against being led 'towards collectivism, which was resulting in hate and national dis* unity. He asked the youth of th# nation to rally to true liberalism. Crisis Averted The correspondent of The Times at Cairn reports: "Fears of a Constitu* tional crisis were dispelled following # meeting between King Faronk and Na* has Pasha, lasting 45 minutes. Th# King explained that the reappointment of Ali Mahi Pasha as his political ad-» viser was due solely to a feeling of personal confidence in Ali. Nahas af* terwards declared that he" was com* pletelv satisfied, saying 'Ali gonn well.' " Divorce Decree A decree nisi in divorce has beeni granted to Mrs Raymond Yincent dd Trafford, who was married five years after shooting de Trafford and herself at the Gare du Nord, Paris, while Count Frederick de Janse, - her then husband, was suing for divorce, states a London message. She was found 'guilty at tho trial following the Paris incident and was given a formal sentence and a fine. De Trafford claimed that the shooting was accidental.

Drug Treatment The deaths resulting from the treatment of blood infeetions with sulfanilamide in the United States now total 46 people. Seven hundred parcels of the elixer have been distributed throughout the country. It is claimed again that the effect of the drug can.not bc predicted. One physician admiuistered 12 doses, including one to his own nurse. Six of the patients died and six were not affected, Charcoal-Burning Efforts are being made to revive the skilled craft of cha-rcoal-burning in England. This higkly-skilled occupation, i'ormerly much practised in the English countryside, declined owing to the competition of foreign imports and other eauses, but the steadily-growing industrial demand for eharcoal, some of which has been due to the Government 's rearmament programme, has given an impetus to the movement for re-estab-lishing htnue production. — British Official "Wireless.