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[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AN OPERATION. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 7. Betty Parr, daughter of the New Zealand High Commissioner, is convalescing satisfactorily after an operation for appendicitis at Brighton where she was at a boarding school and was stricken down on the morning of Sir James Allen’s reception to her parents in London. The news that the operation was successful was received in time to permit the function to he carried out. Lady Parr pluekily did not permit the fact to be revealed to the guests. N-U.R. CON FEUENCE. [Router Telegrams.] (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) •LONDON, July 7. The X.C.R. Conference carried a resolution protesting against victimisation by railway companies. Mr Cramp said the assurances given by companies bad been flagrantly broken. Mr Thomas said nothing could be more dangerous and more ruinous to the future of the country than to engender in the minds of the men, a- desire to get back. A resolution demanding the resignation oF Mr Thomas in relation to the National Wages Board award was overwhelmingly defeated. MINERS DECLINE TO RESUME. LONDON, July 7. Yorkshire miners have solidly declined to resume on the owners terms. JAPANESE FLOODS. TOKIO, July 7.
A disastrous rainstorm in South Western Japan inundated a thousand houses. Three hundred were washed away bodily. The railway and to!etrraph services are badly damaged Thirty deaths are reported.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1926, Page 3
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