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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1928, Page 1

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

I MR MACDONALD ON HOLIDAY. G (British Official Wireless.) , RUGBY, July 29. I Mr Ramsay MacDonald left London I yesterday, accompanied by his three I daughters for Caiiaua, where they will I spend a two months’ holiday. THE BOY SCOUTS. ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST CAMP. I ’RUGBY, July 29. Yesterday, in celebration of the 21st I anniversary of the first Boy Scout I camp, which was held during the last I week of July and the first week of August, 1907, ‘ Sir Robert BadenI Powell, the Chief Scout, "entertained all tho available members of that first I Boy Scout group. PARLIAMENTARY RECESS. CHANGE MADE IN SYSTEM. RUGBY, July 29. The practice of Parliament rising’ I'for the summer recess by adjournment I and resuming tho session in the autumn, will bo followed this year, and on Friday next the session will be brought to an end hy prorogation. Tiro new session, which is the fifth and will he tho last of the present Parliament, will be opened in November instead of 'February, and 'there will be a short recess at Christmas, unless Parliament is dissolved at an earlier date. The new session will hoprorogued in August of next year. If this change proves generally acceptable, it will he regularly followed m future. DUKE’S BIG ESTATE. RUGBY, July 29. Unsettled property, valued so far as can ho ascertained at present at £1 ,{IOO,OOO, has been left hy tho seventh Duke of Newcastle, who died on May 30.