OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1928, Page 2

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

MR BALDWIN. SIXTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 2G. Parliament will be prorogued on Friday of next week. The Prime . Minister, who celebrates his sixty-first birthday on that day, will go to Wales to fulfil a series of public engagements before leaving on August 11 for his annual month’s holiday at Aix-les-Bains. During liis absence Sir Austen Chamberlain will deputise for him. : I' ARMS FOR CHINA. CONSIGNMENTS NOT TO BE UNDERWRITTEN. RUGBY, July 26. It was recently stated in tho House of Commons that all marine underwriters at Lloyd’s Institute of London Underwriters and the Liverpool Underwriters’ Associations had voluntarily agreed hot to underwrite consignments of arms for China.

Many underwriters in other countries have adopted a similar policy, including, it is learned, Polish transport and insurance companies, underwriters at Rotterdam and Amsterdam and the French Union des Syndicates do Compagnies d’Assurance Contre Risque de Transport. OLYMPIAD. PADDOCK’S STATUS. AMSTERDAM, July 27. The International Olympic Committee held a special meeting to consider a published allegation concerning the amateur status of the American sprinter, Paddock. Subsequently a formal statement' was issued that the Committee had received no protest against Paddock’s qualification.