GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

Received January 29. 10.45 a.m. HAIFA, Jan. 28. A Jewish policeman was sentenced to death to-day for the murder of an Arab colleague as a reprisal for the murder of two Jews. JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 28. E. Magnussen, a left-handed medium paced bowler with a wooden legj look ten wickets for 10 runs in an interclub match to-day. Earlier in the match he took nine for 8 runs, capturing four wickets witli his first four bn'Js. HELSINGFORS, Jan. 28A lunatic woman in a fit of anger to-day set fire to the wing of an asylum and watched six men and four women inmates incinerated. (British Official "Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 28. The school blackboard may have to yield to the march of science. After experiments, the National Institute of Industrial Psychology lias reported that a saving in time is obtained by the use of a light yellow board and blue chalk. * The Air Ministry announces that Air Vice-Marshal P. H. Lyon Playfair-Tias been appointed air officer commanding No. 1 Bomber Group of the Royal Air Force, succeeding Air Commodore S. AY. Smith, and that Air Commodore A. Thomson has been appointed air officer commanding the No. 3 Bomber Group. Twopenny and threepenny stamps of the King George VI issue will be oil sale on Monday. The colour of the twopenny stamp is orange and Vermillion and the threepenny deep violet.

The Society for the Overseas Settlement of British AYomen is nrrangranging for a school girls’ tour of South ~ Africa and Southern Rhodesia.