CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 36, 5 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Not a Miliionaire Although he was always believed to be a multi-milliopaire, Captain Eonald Wills, who died ih his sleep reeent-ly, proved to be one of the poorest members of the famous tobacco family. He left £631,052 gross, but it is beiieved he gave big amounte away before his death. - New Speed Records A message from Bonueville, Utan( states that Captain EySton broko t.he world Tecord for 12 hours at an'average speed of 163.68 miles an hour; also the 3000 kilometres ' record at au averaga speed of 163.48 miles an hour. Captain Eyston also broke the record for 2000 miles at au average of 163.7 miles an hour, although it is - at • present not official. Customs Rebate The Collector of Customs at Sydney advises that the rebate on Australian sugar used locally and on manufactured goods exported from the Commonwealth to New Zealand has been fixed to operate from November 1 at £5 on - manufactured fruit products and £7 4/- on ofher goods. Italian Radio Propaganda Beplying in the House of. Commons to suggestions regaxding anti-British propaganda from Italian radio statipns. to Palestine and Arabia, Viscount . Cram .borne said the matter had been taken up more than once with the Italian authorities. He was -glad to say the tone of the broadcaets had lately . improved. - • Flew Backwards A helicopter flown by Flight-Captain Hanna .Reitsch astonished a crowd at i'empelhof aerodrome by flying. backwards, states a Berlin message. It rose straight from the ground, hung poised in the air, reversed, and landed gracefully, The machine is described as a cross between a windmill and a bicycle. The makers are -planning others of the same class. "Nudity Must Stop" Speaking from the pulpit of the fashionable . St. James Church, Piccadiiiy, tbe Bishop of Loudon, I)r. A. F-Winningham-Ingram, at a service convened by the Public Morality League, announced a campaign to clean up the London- stage. * "The other day,'' he said, "I -was called in by . the Lord Chamberlain, who -said. he was going to call together every person responsible for London theatres and tell them that this nudity on the London stage has got to stdp. 1 have. reason to believe now that. all realise that it is dishonourable for the girls and extremely bad for decadent young men who find pleasure in these shows.'' Air-Raid Precautions The British Home Office announqes that in order to render the greatest possible measure of assistance and advice to local authorities in connection with the preparation of air-raid precaution schemes it has been decided to divide the country into approximately 10 areas in England and VVales and two in Scotland, and in addition London and Middlesex are to .I'onn one area. In each of these areas a regional inspector appointed by the Air-llaid Precautions Department yriil be stationed to maintaih.close and constant touch with all the authorities in tbe area. — British Official Wireless. m Penzance Cottages Many of the pieturesque cottages at Newlyn, which it was proposed to deraolish under a sluni clearance order. will be preserved and the facades of others retained when they are rebuilt. In a letter to the Penzance Council, the British Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, states that only oue small bloek will be too bad to be ,s.a.vej|.