Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 217, 2 December 1927, Page 9

Cable Jottings

CRICKET IN AFRICA.—At Maritz- ; burg, against Natal, the Marylebone team, in its first innings, made 333 Tvidesley 161. —A. and N.Z. N.S.W, ASSEBLV. —The New South Wales Assembly has passed the Ar- | bitration Amendment Bill, and has read for the first time a Bill prohibiting betting and wagering after sunset, on any licensed racecourse or coursing ground.—A. and N.Z. MEAT BOARD CHANGE.--The New j South Wales Legislative Council has | passed the Bill providing for the removal of Mr. A. D. Kay from the Meat j Board. There was a stormy debate re- j cently in the Lower House, Labour j members objecting hotly to the pro- j posaL—A. and N.Z. ROYAL ATR FORCE.—The Undersecretary tor Air. thr Philip Sassoon, ' stated in the House of Commons that ; of 750 airplanes that were possessed by the Royal Air Force none was built before 1910. He declined in the public interest to state how many were built I in each year from that date. —British Official Wireless. ILLEGAL BETTIXG.— I The growing | Prevalence of illegal betting in Sydney j 13 shown in the police report for the j three months ended October. The re- i Port states that 243 people in the metropolitan area were charged with I illegal betting, and fines amounting to ■ XZ* were inflicted. —A. and j .ANIMAL WELFARE. —A resident of Katoomba. Miss Harris, who has died. J left an estate valued at £3,154, yiich she has bequeathed to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ar. imals. In her will she asks that her fjogs, parrot and canaries be painlessly destroyed.— A. and N.Z. ,?PIUM CONVENTION. —In tho House of Commons the Secretary of *ta.te for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen t-amberlain, said that besides Britain niy France and Poland had ratified Hi 9 Geneva Opium Convention of 1925. irte ratification by Britain covered all Parts of the Empire other than Canada and the Irish Free State. —British Official Woreless. ■—'TATE SHIPS LOSE.—The French and the Chamber of Deputies ‘ rl ' e formally ratified the sale of tho 400 J‘' r rchant ships which the Government ‘Ught in war time, at a cost of ‘•too,000,000 francs. The franc was • *en nearly at par. The realisation thj *t it lias fallen has resulted in ' loss of more than 1,000,000,000 ancs.—a. and N.Z.-Sun.

v . Pishing Without Licence. Luke *iir ' who fi sLe<l in the Waikato with.Jt a licence, was fined £4 at tile »9hce Court to-day.