MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Austral)-.! & N.Z. Cable AssociaUja.) BRITISH EMPIRE CO-OPERATION. LONDON. Oet. 20. Ihe Agricultural Conference resulted in the finalising of many of the committee’s reports. 4'lie subtropical Research Committee reported that the Commonwealth was spending fifty thousand on a research station in North Queensland. The annual expenditure was ten thousand and it was being shared equally by the Ala riveting Board and the Commonwealth. It was suggested that the station should act as a centre of research in the animal industry and in the nutrition and tropics pasture problems. The report was adopted.

The Information Committee recommended a series of bureaus and correspondence centres, ■Costing twenty thousand annually, subject to the supervision by a body representing Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India, the Irish Free State and Britain. Sir Daniel Hall (Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture) objected to the allocation of money for such bureaus. He said it could he better devoted to research.

Mr Julius vigorously defended the recommendation. He said it was essential and was contributory to research.

Mr Grisdale (Canadian v delegate) said that unless the bureaus were established, it was doubtful if Canada would co-operate. Yhe conference adopted the report.

WARNING FROM OXFORD, LONDON,. Oct. 27,

Professor Gilbert Murray is reported hy the Daily Telegraph as declaring, in a speech at Oxford, that the British Empire is in a critical condition. There wore, he said, four great Empires before the war, and it was dangerous then for one of the foul to do anvthing without consulting the others'. Three of these Empires had been shattered to pieces, and only the British Empire was now left, and it was in a precarious condition. The age of the Great Powers, said Professor Murray, had ended therefore. and the time was past when ve could do practically what we liked. Our Empire, before the war, was increasing by a general impetus. Now it was in retreat. In spite of the difficulties, however, we were oil the up grade as a nation, but we must play for caution and must avoid war or revolution or any other shock to credit. There was dislike felt against the four Great Empires before the war. This dislike was now concentrated against Britain.

MTSS ELDER LAID UP. LISBON. Oct. 2G. Miss Ruth Elder, the airwoman, is in lied suffering from influenza. A eomplet rest has been ordered, and her departure has been postponed indefinitely. II INDEX BERG ILL. BF.RLIX. O'ct. 27. General Hiiidenlnirg was ill overvight and fainted this morning, but is improving. Cabinet denies that he suffered an apoplectic seizure. AIRMAN’S FATAL CRASH. MELBOURNE. Oct. 27. An aeroplane, piloted by Cadet Pilot E. Search, aged 23 years, a cadet pilot at the Point Cook Flying School, tiho was the sole occupant, crashed near Healesvillo, and burst into flames as it fell, and Search was incinerated. He was apparently trying to land when the engine stalled, and the machine nosedived from a height of two hundred feet.

Search lived at Marrickville, Sydney. He would have been granted a pilot’s certificate in another two weeks. He was evidently killed outright, os his body was found strapped to the seat.