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Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1928, Page 2

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[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.] THE PEACE PACT. VISCOUNT GREY’S OPINIONS. RUGBY, June 5. Viscount- Grey, formerly Foreign Minister, presiding at the League of Nations Union conference on arbitration. said the Peace Pact proposal from the United States had no direct connection with the League of Nations at all, yet in its effect on the object of the League it would, he thought, he more important, and helpful than anything that could have been done within the League itself. If the pact became an accomplished fact, the majority of nations who signed it would he members of the League. The risk of any of those members breaking the covenant ol the League would he much less, because, by so doing, they would he breaking also the American pact. It would be a very formidable thing in the future for any nation to break two such important things as the Covenant, of the League and the American Peace Pact. The pact was not yet, a reality, hub the prospects of its becoming so seemed to him to be increasingly favourable.

SIR. FREDERICK SYKES. APPOINTMENT TO BOMBAY. RUGBY, June 5. A further by-election, making the fifth that is pending, will be necessitated by the appointment to the governorship of. Bombay Presidency of Sir Frederick Sykes, in succession to Sir Leslie Wilson, whose term of office expires next September. Although he will not proceed to India for some, months, it is understood Sir Frederick Sykes intends resigning from Parliament, in the near future. lie lias been Conservative member for the Hal la m Division of Sheffield for six years, holding the seat at last election by a 6000 majority. He was for some years Controller of Civil Aviation.

NEW FLYING RECORD. FAST AIR-TAXI JOURNEY. RUGBY, June 5. Captain Olley. an Imperial Airways pilot, set up a new (lying record yesterday bV piloting a fast DIT Arm-stroiig-Siddoley air-taxi from Croydon to La Touqnet and back in 2’, hours. When approaching London, about !) o’clock in the evening, lie had the experience of seeing the sun set when he was flying at 500 feet, and then, when mounting to 4000 feet, the sun ;ij ipoured to rise ond

TITK COLONIES. good COMES FROM VISITS. RUGBY. June 5. Sir Samuel Wilson. Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, referring at the British Malaya Association' dinner last night to the good coming from visits by a Colonial Office official to different parts of the Empire in order to promote harmonious co-operation, mentioned his intended visit to flic "West African Colonies during tlie summer, and said that lie hoped for junior officers to tour overseas during their early period in the Department.