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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1930, Page 5

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N.Z, PLAYWRIGHT. POISONED IN FRANCE. rUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Sept. 4. A man who has given his name as Robert. Hammond, playivright, of Auckland, New Zealand, is suffering from veronal poisoning at Boulogne, The police information indicate that Hammond arrived. with £SOOO but at present he appears to ibe without resources, VOLCANIC ERUPTION. TOKIO SHOWERED WITH ASHES TOKIO, Sept. 5, Mt. Asams, the Japanese volcano near the Rnruizawa resort, is in violent eruption. Ashes are now falling in T.tkio, which is at a distance of nearly 100 miles from the volcano. BRITISH PROPOSALS. LONDON, September 5. Three outstanding recommendations by the Trades Union Congress at Nottingham are:— State pensions at 60. Shorter hours of labour. Compensation for employees displaced by mergers. In the course of the debate on pensions, it was stated that there were 678 thousand men over the age of 60 engaged at present in industry. It was also emphasised the Progressive Liberals had advocated pensions at 60 years of age. PREMIER FORBES. HONOLULU, Sept. 5. Premier Forbes, en route to the Empire Conference, an arrival hoie said New Zealand was in a sound financial condition. INTERNATIONAL POLO. NEW YORK. Sept. fi. The International Polo Cup hue ups lor Saturday are as follows: Britain: Gerald Balding, Lewis Lacey (Captain), C. T. R. Roark, Lieut. Humphrey Ginnis, United States. Erie Erie Hopping (Captain), Lonimy Hitchcock, Winston Guest. CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION. LONDON. Sept. 5. Exchanges from Copenhagen assert Brntvang’s crew have lodged a claim for compensation from the Norwegian Government in connection with the finding k>f the bodies of Andree and his companions, declaring it was they who actually found the bodies, not the Horn Scientific Expedition, whose White Island work had finished when the remains were discovered.