NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 November 1927, Page 5

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

LATE CABLES IN BRIEF. Plea for the Beer Drinkers: “Beer drinkers pay £84,060,000 a year, and the burden demands relief,” said Colonel Winch, chairman of the Brewers’ Society at London, regarding the farmers’ effort to secure an import duty on malting barley. Twenty-five per cent, of barley which has been grown in the sunshine must be used with 75 per cent. British <ll order to produce the best ueers. Supertax and Land Tax.— ln the Queensland Assembly the Premier obtained leave to introduce a bill to extend the operation of the supertax and land tax. To Prohibit Betting The Victorian Assembly passed the first reading of a bill to prohibit betting at mechanical hare coursing meetings. Family Endowment The N.S.W. Assembly passed the Family Endowment Amendment Bill. More Outlaws Captured.— Wireless advices received in Sydney from Tulagai state that nine more outlaws have been captured, otherwise the situation is unchanged. Plague of Locusts.— The services ot Royal Air Force machines have been offered to the Egyptian Government to combat a plague of locusts which is causing great damage in parts of Egypt. Anglo-Russian Relations— ln the House of Commons the Premier was asked whether his speech abumbrating the renewal of relations with Russia had yet received any response from the Russian Government an.l whether he proposed to take any more steps in the matter, The Premier replied that the answer to both parts of the question was in the negative. He had not yet had any assurance that the Russian Government had ceased to interfere in British international affairs.