Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

BITTER 1 ELECTION.—An intensely tatter election campaign is in progress in New South Wales. Some of the worst feeling is between the contending sections of the Labour Party, and N.Z. PAY OF POLICE.—The recent decision of the Lang Government to increase the pay of members of the New fcouth Wales police force by 10s 6d jjeekly, means an additional cost to tee country of £85,000. —A. and N.Z. HKIELITY CONGRESS. The international Heredity Congress has ** u e a commission to frame a patent jaw to protect breeders of new varieof animals and growers of new of vegetables.—Times. AIR DISASTER.—Three naval airmen named Booth, Mcßae and Harrison left California, intending to fly o apokanc 1:0 act as official observers great air race from New York J‘ x * We ek- Two hours later the plane gashed in the Mojave desert. The !^ e men were killed instantaneously. ■"■Sill!,.

AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. (n\ti 03 f al Commission which is intn.o s into the working of the AusUonw ® onstitut ion since the FederaCanK« haS c *’ inili enced its sittings at JWp rra * u nder the chairmanship of l essor Peden.— A. and N.Z. ,PATAL_ burns.—News has been th7r[ e<i . in Sydney that the death of War Resident Commissioner in Guinea, Mr. G. B. Smith-Rewse, m i iK 5 auße d by burns resulting from a l ° his read ing lamp.—A. and