BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1923, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREGIN ITEMS.

AUBTKAI.IAN A,\l) N.Z. CAMI. K ASSOCIATION. British politico. LONDON, Miircb O. ]j,,n. Hunai Law informed Mr Hurd in answer to a question in the Commons that Government had decided it was necessary in the interests ot national security that there should be a wireless' station in England capable of communicating with the Dominions whollv operated by the State. Such a station will be erected as eailv as

possible, and also be available commercially. He added that since the late Government had decided on a State-sup-ported wireless chain, it was now considered unnecessary to longer exclude private enterprise from participating in [Umpire wireless communication. Licenses would lie granted for the erection of wireless stations in Knghuid for the Dominions, colonics and foreign communication, subject to conditions necessary to secure British control. 11(111. Uouar l.nw. replying to a question, said he had no information of Germany breaking off diplomatic relations with France.

A FRENCH ST.VTKMEXT. FA.RIS, March 5 The newspaper “L’oeuvre” says

unnamed French Kgyptologist suggests the leal reason for the rescaling of Tutankhamen's tomb was the discovery that the coffin was empty. It asserts that Lord C'arnavon like many previous excavators, found the tomb had been rifled.

A BIiTTIXI I ftC'H EM E. LONDON. March I. The development i f commercial motoring has reached a stage when those interested consider ordinary roads antiquated. The only solution is for the motors to have their own roads, like the railways. Financiers have approached the Ministry of Transport. with plans to build a. motorway from Louden to Birmingham, fifty feet wide, wit 1 1 no gradient over one in forty, lie speed limits and any number of trailer- permitted. The total cost for ninefv miles of roadway, bridges, building'-. rial land purchase is estimat'd at cavil!if). The promoters Ixdieve trnnsp.„q charges would lie reduced by from n- t. no per cent. \ tax on tonnage ..'till make the venture profitable. Onlv motor vehicles would he allowed on the road, and pedestrians, pat ticiilurlv. would he barred. T’assenger vehicles would he welcomed, for which a ...diedole sliced of 30 to nO miles an hour \vmdd la* ipiite feasible. The scheme would Ik-' extended later to Manehester and Liverpool. A Gfirf-AGO TRAGEDY. NEW YOU K. March X. A Chicago telegram says hvdro-eyan-i,. ;i:-i t l gas used: by tlm City flealtb Departnienl in fumigating a re-taiiraut situated in a dwelling-house eseapea through an opening cut for a vvatbrpipe. and entered the living quarters of a family of six persons, who . me asleep resulting in their death. Three generations were included in the family. 11V RXOTTHKI) SC! 100 i TIG VS. LONDON. .March A. Recording lo a Geneva messarre. alarming results followed the hypnotising of a number of schoolboys by two German hypnotists during a lecture. \Yhon they returned to selinol next day several of the boys were unable to speak, and others could not use their hands. Doctors who A ore called in said the boys were still under hypnotic influence. Their condition remains serious. The police have forbidden tile Germans to leave the town. FIN A X(T.\ I. errs. LONDON’. March X. The Civil Service estimate for next year dmu a reduction of over £BB.<1(10.0110. The decrease in some depaitments i- very large. Ihe estimated coil for relief 'if unemployment is £| .7XO 000 a ,le u'cas'e of C820.01H.1 compared with this year. The F/lucation vote s- C3.fM10.000 less, while tile Irish vofe i- remonsibl • fur a large reduction. Tim Middle Eastern vote is cut .by two and a-balf miliums. The Pensions vote has dropped £lO-000.000.