GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 53, 31 January 1938, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Jan. 28. Lord Somers (Deputy-Chief Scout for Great Britain) has disclosed that the number of Boy Scouts throughout the world was 2,855,689 on December 31 last, an increase of 262,857. The Empire membership was '1,055,551, an increase of 43,615. The Boy Scouts’ Association, owing to an increased grant to London and also the Coronation expenses, has a deficit of £7117. An appeal has been made for assistance. OTTAWA, Jan. 28. Mr A. W. Neill, a British Columbia Independent member in the House of Commons, has given notice of a resolution to abrogate the Canadian agreement with Japan admitting 150 Nipponese annually. He favours their total exclusion. MONTREAL, Jan. 28. The death has occurred of Baron Atholstan, aged 90, the publisher of the Montreal Star. As Hugh Graham, a Quebec farm hoy, he founded the paper in partnership with George Lanigan, dissolving it when Lanigan advocated the annexation of Canada hv the United States. In the stringent pioneer days they hauled newsprint in a wheelbarrow, collecting the pennies of their newsboys to pay. An ardent Imperialist Baron Atholstan persuaded the Government to send a Canadian Contingent to the Boer War. (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 has reported that a saving in time is obtained by the use of a light yellow hoard and blue chalk. It is stated in official circles that the reported visit to London of a United States Navy Department officer is for the purpose of consultation with the Admiralty regarding capital ship construction. The Air Ministry announces that Air Vice-Marshal P. 11. Lyon Playfair has 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 on 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 AVoman is arrangranging for a school girls’ tour of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia.