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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1928, Page 6

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for improving golf greens. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dec 18. Each of two thousand Golf Clubs in Britain have been asked to subscribe two pounds each yearly to establish a board of research for scientific investigation of green keeping problems, on which the present one million a year is being spent. Acknowledged experts of the Ministry of Agriculture, agr cultural colleges, and Rothamsted experimental station are co-operating. ' A 27,000 TONNER, LONDON, Dec. 18. The White Sar new twin seven thousand ton motor ship being built at Belfast, will be christened Brittanic. The fii’st Brittanic was built in 1874, and was the historic pride of the Atlantic, which it crossed in seven and ■ half days. The second was mined in the war time. ELECTION VOIDED. BRUSSELS, Doc. 18. The Chamber, on Hands, declared nul and void the election at Borins, the imprisoned Communist, cabled on ■Ddeefnibeir 10th. > MAU CHIEF. SENT TO MT. EDEN. SUVA, December 10. 'ldle High Chief Tamasese, spokesman of the Man Committee in Samoa, is a passenger by the Tofua, en route to Auckland, to serve a sentence ol six months in Mount Eden gaol, on a charge of resisting the police at Apia. Chief Justice Woodward of Samoa is also a. passenger on furlough. PACIFIC EFFORTS BY RADIO. PARIS, Dec. 10. • For -the first time in history, the newest and most rapid means of communication hy wireless telephony was used in efforts to settle! the differences between nations. »■ M. Berthalot, under instructions from AI, Bfiand,. spoke for some time .to. M. Cliiichant, the French Ambassador at Buenos Ayres, learning the .latest, information in connection with the Bplijvian-Paraguayan dispute, ’and transmitting M. Briand’s, final .iiislruc-, lions from Paris.